Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello everybody, > > there was recently a discussion on this list about the necessity of > using $(QUILT_STAMPFN) instead of patch as a patching target. I had a > look at /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch.make and /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make > and realised that only Quilt makes the patch target phony. Is there > actually a good reason for this? I was considering fixing all our > packages in Debian Med and maybe ask the Quilt and Dpatch maintainers to > standardise their target names, but maybe the simplest solution is to > make the patch rule not phony?
Whether explicitly declared phony or not, the target is phony because it doesn't create a file named patch. Any rule that doesn't create a file matching the name of the rule is phony; the only purpose of the .PHONY declaration is to force make to realize this even if a file with that name exists for some other reason. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
