Re: [PATCH] Makefile.tpl: mark mail-report.log and mail-report-with-warnings.log as .PHONY

[Uros Bizjak]

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On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 11:38 PM Uros Bizjak <ubiz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> mail-report.log has no prerequisites, so once it exists Make
> considers it up to date on every subsequent invocation and the
> recipe never reruns; regenerating it after a fresh test run
> currently requires manually removing the file first.
>
> mail-report-with-warnings.log has the same problem despite
> depending on warning.log: it always needs to regenerate on
> demand rather than only when its prerequisite changes.
>
> Mark both as .PHONY so they rerun on every invocation, matching
> their actual use as on-demand report generators rather than
> cacheable build artifacts.  warning.log itself is left alone, as
> its dependency on build.log is tracked correctly and should keep
> using normal timestamp-based rebuilding.
>
> ChangeLog:
>
> * Makefile.tpl (mail-report.log): Mark as .PHONY.
> (mail-report-with-warnings.log): Likewise.
> * Makefile.in: Regenerate.
>
> Tested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.
>
> Uros.