We have had a lot of problems with phony hints being ignored and makefiles not running.
I've narrowed it down to a small example. See the transcript below in this email, or the code at https://github.com/Reasoning-Technology/subu/tree/master/try/phony_general_targets_fail In this example there is a target, 'lib', and there happens to be a directory with the same name - this is a common combination. There is a phony declaration for lib, but it gets ignored. I've added a second phony target, 'version', which also has a directory. That works. The only difference is that the target is not given as a pattern. I've also run this example with a target that does not correspond to a file or directory, and that also works as expected. So it appears that phony hints are ignored if targets are patterns rather than literals. Consequently it appear that there is no way to give phony hints in fancy makefiles that use general recipes. Seems the phony hints should be checked against the target provided to make, which will be literal, and then prevent the directory search. Apparently this is not the case. If it is only to be checked when there is a match to a provided target, then that check would hopefully occur after the pattern expansion. It isn't clear to me where else it is possible to do the check, but somehow it is doing the check somewhere else. ----------------> 2019-04-02T10:48:22Z user@host§~/subu_land/subu/try/phony_general_targets§ > cat makefile .PHONY: lib version version: @echo "version 0.1" %:: @echo $@ 2019-04-02T10:48:27Z user@host§~/subu_land/subu/try/phony_general_targets§ > mkdir version lib 2019-04-02T10:48:38Z user@host§~/subu_land/subu/try/phony_general_targets§ > ls lib makefile version 2019-04-02T10:48:42Z user@host§~/subu_land/subu/try/phony_general_targets§ > make version version 0.1 2019-04-02T10:48:50Z user@host§~/subu_land/subu/try/phony_general_targets§ > make code code 2019-04-02T10:48:57Z user@host§~/subu_land/subu/try/phony_general_targets§ > make lib make: Nothing to be done for 'lib'. 2019-04-02T10:49:00Z user@host§~/subu_land/subu/try/phony_general_targets§ >
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