On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 09:29:40AM -0400, Chris Nandor wrote: > In article <p05111a37b9248135ce12@[203.47.34.3]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter N Lewis) wrote: > > > At 18:57 -0400 5/6/02, Rick Frankel wrote: > > > > >so, adding: > > > .PHONY: install > > > > > >at the top of the (gnu)makefile will force the install target to > > >execute. > .PHONY is not just a GNU make thing anyway; I know dmake uses it (we use > it in the MacPerl Makefile, which uses dmake), so that makes it even > less likely. There are also multiple .PHONY declarations in perl's
FWIW, i think it was first used in gnu make. I know it's not in the old Feldman make or /usr/ccs/bin/make on solaris. > Makefile.SH already, including one for the "install" target, so I > imagine it is used on other *make, too. From my generated Makefile on > Linux: > > .PHONY: install install-strip install-all install-verbose install-silent > \ > no-install install.perl install.man install.html > > > So I dunno what the deal is ... maybe the problem is that .PHONY is a > no-op on Mac OS X's make? Curious. I just tried a test on OSX w/ /usr/bin/make (linked to /usr/bin/gnumake) AND /usr/bin/bsdmake and .PHONY: install works. rick
