On Mon, 2017-01-02 at 09:51 -0900, Britton Kerin wrote:
> This may be at least mostly true for the particular case of the clean
> target, which is generally invoked explicitly. However, its not true
> for the common case of an object file that one wants to always
> rebuild.
I'm not sure anyone w
It says this:
An example will illustrate this:
clean: FORCE
rm $(objects)
FORCE:
Here the target ‘FORCE’ satisfies the special conditions, so the
target clean that depends on it is
forced to run its recipe. There is nothing special about the name
‘FORCE’, bu