On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, John Graham-Cumming wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 09:54, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > $(Program): build_msg (OBJECTS) $(BUILTINS_DEP) ... > > ... regular commands here ... > > > > .PHONY: build_msg > > build_msg: > > @printf ... building $(Program) ... > > > > the text reads: > > > > "Because the printf is in a phony target, the message is printed > > immediately before any prerequisites are updated." > > > > really? > > No. Just try an experiment: > > .PHONY: all > all: real-target phony-target other-real-target > > real-target: ; @echo $@ > other-real-target: ; @echo $@ > > .PHONY: phony-target > phony-target: ; @echo $@ > > And you'll see the output is > > real-target > phony-target > other-real-target > > Try permuting the prerequisites of all and you see that Make > traverses them left to right. PHONY only affects whether the > prerequisite will be updated or not.
i suspected as much, but you can see how the way that sentence is phrased in the book would lead someone to a noticeably different conclusion, right? certainly, if you were doing a parallel make, make would have the freedom to process the dependencies any way it wanted, no? rday _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
