On Fri, 2019-10-11 at 10:18 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i'm looking at someone else's Makefile, and it is replete with > targets whose names begin with a period. i'm aware of the property > that such targets will not be considered as the default, but once you > define a few early targets, is there any value in continuing to have > period-prefixed targets? > > in this Makefile, there are a number of "paired" targets such as: > > clean_mystuff: > .clean_mystuff_fail: > > which seems to suggest some kind of pattern, but i have no idea what > it might be.
make itself doesn't treat targets starting with '.' any differently; this must be a coding convention for these makefiles specifically. I will point out that POSIX reserves all target names beginning with '.' followed by uppercase letters as reserved for implementations so it's probably a good idea to not use target names like that in your makefiles. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
