greg:
Yes, I've had good luck with that. I've found I can use
'FORCE' in place of .PHONY and it works just as well, eg:
foo: FORCE
stuff
FORCE:
..and I include an extra blank line after the FORCE:
because I think old make's would complain.
hence the reason
On 06.01.2011 07:58, Michael Sweet wrote:
.PHONY: foo bar is a GNU extension, but fortunately is silently/safely
ignored by make programs that do not support it.
Thanks to you and all the others that replied. I got some
ideas to improve the Makefile. Let's see...
Albrecht
I used .phony in documentation/Makefile to force generation
of the doc files manually independent of (not defined)
dependencies.
I couldn't find another example in our Makefiles and wonder
whether this is standard or a GNU make extension. I could
not find it on the web. Does anybody know?
If
I used .phony in documentation/Makefile to force generation
of the doc files manually independent of (not defined)
dependencies.
I couldn't find another example in our Makefiles and wonder
whether this is standard or a GNU make extension. I could
not find it on the web. Does anybody know?
I used .phony in documentation/Makefile to force generation
of the doc files manually independent of (not defined)
dependencies.
I couldn't find another example in our Makefiles and wonder
whether this is standard or a GNU make extension. I could
not find it on the web. Does anybody know?
You can probably get what you want by having a dependency on a
file that never exists:
always: noSuchFile
build always
noSuchFile:
:
# remember that ':' is a dummy command on Unix
Right. That works until some wiseguy creates a file
called noSuchFile to trip you up. Tricks
On 05.01.2011 18:28, s...@sjssoftware.com wrote:
I used .phony in documentation/Makefile to force generation
of the doc files manually independent of (not defined)
dependencies.
Albrecht, is this what you're looking for?
http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/make/Phony-Targets.html
On 05.01.2011 18:45, Duncan Gibson wrote:
You can probably get what you want by having a dependency on a
file that never exists:
...
Thanks, I partially did this already (see other reply: refman.pdf).
To be sure you can always do 'make clean dist', and this ought to
work as expected.
[..]
In any case, using it should be pretty harmless. It will work
as intended if the feature is supported; if not, it will do the
right thing unless the user has a file called .phony lying
around.
Hmm, sounds good. However it's not the file .phony, but the real
target (in this case
s...@sjssoftware.com wrote:
Yes, reading more carefully I see I may have misled you. If
you only use the .PHONY label there may be problems with
non-GNU make. Try this though:
foo: .PHONY
build foo
.PHONY:
I'm pretty sure that leads GNU make to build foo no matter
what, and make's
On Jan 5, 2011, at 6:17 AM, Albrecht Schlosser wrote:
I used .phony in documentation/Makefile to force generation
of the doc files manually independent of (not defined)
dependencies.
I couldn't find another example in our Makefiles and wonder
whether this is standard or a GNU make
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