make -q and phony targets

Hi, Paul Eggert discovered that phony targets cause "make -q" to fail. How to reproduce: Makefile all : sanity foo sanity : @test `expr 1 + 1` = 2 foo : echo > foo .PHONY: sanity =

Re: make -q and timestamps

On 08/13/2011 03:02 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: > is it possible to extend GNU Make in a way that supports this? Possibly > by defining a new kind of special built-in target? Well, one can imagine a new special target .TIME, say, which would look like this: .TIME: foo.h foo.h: a b c etc gene