Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> writes: > The simple rule > %: > dh $@ > will fail miserably if there is any file named like a target. Try > `touch build' in your favourite dh-7-package to see it break. > > GNU make users probably know that this is why there is a .PHONY: ... > rule.
Yes. For this reason, I avoid the three-line rules file (despite its cuteness), and use the .PHONY feature. > However that one does not work with implicit dependencies and > results in make thinking there is nothing to be done. Can you give an example of a ‘debian/rules’ that does not work, and what the desired behaviour would be? -- \ “You can't have everything; where would you put it?” —Steven | `\ Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
