On Wed, 2023-01-18 at 14:45 +0100, Frank Heckenbach wrote: > % cat Makefile > .PHONY: a > a: b; : > % touch b; touch a; make --debug=w > Makefile:2: update target 'a' due to: b > : > > Of course, make should remake a, but not due to b but because it's > phony.
Please provide info about what version of GNU make you're using.
