On Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 04:39:54PM +0000, Philip Hands wrote:
> > The reason is that inside of debian/rules a stamp-file is used
> > to indicate that the build process was successful.  Unfortunately
> > this stamp-file is called 'build' - similar to the target I have
> > to use
> 
> That's what the .PHONY: target is for:
[..]
> It makes make ignore files of the same name as a .PHONY: dependent.

Aha, I didn't know that .PHONY does.  If that's the case maybe
every rules file that has a build target and uses the file build
as stamp file needs to have such a .PHONY entry.  At least it
sounds ok.

Regards,

        Joey

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