Wei Liu writes ("Re: [PATCH for-4.9] build: stubdom and tools should depend on 
public header target"):
> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 02:16:39PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > The new code in the Makefiles LGTM.  I have only one nit, which is
> > that style for Makefile targets seems to be to use `-' rather than `_'
> > as a word separator.
> 
> IIRC at one point I used '-' in mini-os build system but some version of
> make didn't like it. So I stick with '_' since.

I think you are confused.  You are probably thinking of variable names
which cannot contain -.  (Well, which are troublesome if they do.)

As you can see, our Makefiles are full of target names containing -.

Ian.

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