On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 at 09:43, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote:
[...] > _help: > @echo '_build: make $(py_static_bundle)' > @echo '_deploy_tip: formally deploy the current tip to the dev > host dev tree:' > @echo '_sync_dev: rsync the current working files into the dev > tip tree' [...] > Things to note: > > "Virtual targets" are actions rather than result files, and start with > an underscore. > > The default target is _help, which recites a description of the other > targets. Hi, as you might be aware, the above recipe will not be run if a file named '_help' exists. The Gnu make documentation term for what you call "virtual targets" is "phony targets", and it discusses them here: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Phony-Targets.html#Phony-Targets I would add the line: .PHONY: _help And similar for all the other phony targets. Doing this has other advantages as described in the linked docs. In particular, it saves 'make' wasting time searching for built-in implicit rules that might build these never-built targets. 'make -d' will reveal this. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
