On 2011-05-05 13:05Z, Akim Demaille wrote: > > This file is declared phony because there's no visible way for Make to know > when to update it: just update it each time we need it.
Okay, but that file is a prerequisite of a target that 'make' does update... > Yet, GNU Make seems to always run the recipes of the order-only prerequisites Because the prerequisite is phony. http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Phony-Targets.html | A phony target should not be a prerequisite of a real target file; | if it is, its recipe will be run every time make goes to update that file. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
