On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 08:27:33AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Helmut Grohne <[email protected]> writes: > > Well my basic idea was to add a .PHONY line to the 3-line example like: > > #!/usr/bin/make -f > > %: > > $@ > > .PHONY:build clean install binary-arch binary-indep binary > What is it about this ???debian/rules??? file that ???does not work???, as > you said in your original message? What behaviour is expected, and > what behaviour do you get instead?
I'm sorry, but my example is very subtly wrong. It's lacking the three characters "dh " before "$@". Adding these will result in the example from man 1 dh plus a .PHONY line. The expected behaviour would be that there is no difference to the simple 3-line example if none of the files listed with .PHONY exist. The observed behaviour is that all targets listed with .PHONY are "nothing to be done" targes, see #509756. Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
