On Tue, Aug 4, 2026 at 6:54 PM Jon Forrest <[email protected]> wrote:
> My question is why is make treating an argument that is clearly > specified as a makefile name as a target? This is the behavior. Make updates its makefiles whether specified with -f or one of the default names. If you want to prevent make from updating a makefile you can add a double colon rule to the makefile e.g. in the case of makefile called "hello.mk" hello.mk::; This is described in detail in the manual. regards, Dmitry
