Hey all 👋
To my mind, whenever a target is marked as PHONY it is supposed to simply
ignore files with the same name. And that should be the behaviour of
PHONY pattern rules too.
With that said, I need some help understanding what happens in the
following scenario please.
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On Wed, 2023-10-04 at 07:34 -0700, Bahman Movaqar wrote:
> .PHONY : echo.%
That makes the specific target named, literally, "echo.%" into a phony
target. .PHONY doesn't accept wildcards.
Hit "Send" too soon.
To make matters more complicated, in the previous snippet, if I declare
`echo.%' as below (w/o any pattern-rule prerequisite) then Make behaves
as expected.
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On Wed, 2023-10-04 at 10:38 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-10-04 at 07:34 -0700, Bahman Movaqar wrote:
> > .PHONY : echo.%
>
> That makes the specific target named, literally, "echo.%" into a phony
> target. .PHONY doesn't accept wildcards.
TIL Â
Thanks for the answer. Though this con
On Wed, 2023-10-04 at 07:40 -0700, Bahman Movaqar wrote:
> To make matters more complicated, in the previous snippet, if I
> declare `echo.%' as below (w/o any pattern-rule prerequisite) then
> Make behaves as expected.
Sorry but I don't really understand the problem. Maybe you can explain
it mor
On 2023-10-04 07:55, Paul Smith wrote:
> It also means that implicit rules are not searched, for PHONY targets.
Is there a good reason for that? The manual mentions only performance:
The implicit rule search (see Using Implicit Rules) is skipped
for .PHONY targets. This is why declaring a tar
