On Wed, 2023-10-04 at 10:55 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > Sorry but I don't really understand the problem. Maybe you can explain > it more clearly: provide the shortest, simplest repro case and show > both what happened and what you expected to see, and explain why you > expected it.
Good idea. Please see this repository: https://github.com/throw-away-repos/make-pattern-rules > That's not really right. What .PHONY means is that make will _always_ > rebuild that target (if it is considered), regardless of whether or not > the file exists on the disk or whether it's out of date with respect to > its prerequisites. I see where I misunderstood .PHONY. > It also means that implicit rules are not searched, for PHONY targets. > See: > https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Phony-Targets.html I definitely needed to re-read this! That said, I'm still confused. I'm thinking that my understanding of implicit rule search combined w/ .PHONY is not enough to explain the situation in the repository above. -- Bahman Join the chatter on Matrix: 🗣️ https://matrix.to/#/#.mk:matrix.org Subscribe to the Lemmy community: 🐭 https://lemmy.ml/c/makefile
