Helmut Grohne wrote: > I recently tried converting my packages to dh 7 and ... failed. > > 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. However that one does not work with implicit dependencies and > results in make thinking there is nothing to be done.
I was not aware of this behavior of make and had assumed .PHONY could be used
as usual in this case. But I see that bug #509756 was recently opened on make
about it.
> Another idea was to supply the -B switch to make:
> -B, --always-make Unconditionally make all targets.
>
> However `make -Bf ./debian/rules clean' does not seem to work since make
> executes `dh ./debian/rules'. I did not find out why.
Apparently make always tries to run a target with the name of the
Makefile. So this causes it to try to build the Makefile
even though it's up-to-date.
I will make dh handle this case in the next release, by doing the equivilant
of:
debian/rules:
# no-op
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