Reinier Post schrieb am 22.03.2013 um 10:35 (+0100): > On Fri Mar 22 01:37:01 2013, [email protected] (Magnus Fromreide) wrote: > > > [...] > > I couldn't find anything about .PHONY making it's dependants into > > targets in the manual. > > Um, that's the whole purpose of a .PHONY rule. > > http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Phony-Targets.html
Hmm, why would implicit target creation be the purpose of .PHONY ? One could imagine (like Magnus) the usual error being flagged when a non- existing .PHONY target is invoked. Instead, none is flagged; maybe as a convenience to the user? The above manual page does not document implicit target creation either. To me, it looks like implicit no-rule target creation (as Dave Hylands explained) is an undocumented feature of how .PHONY works. Michael _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
