On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Gaetan Nadon <mems...@videotron.ca> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 17:26 -0500, Trevor Woerner wrote: > -.PHONY: ChangeLog INSTALL > +.PHONY: ChangeLog INSTALL documents > > I don't think it should be a PHONY target, "documents" is not a file. > It's like the lint target.
I thought this is exactly the sort of scenario where a PHONY target is used. From "info make": "A phony target is one that is not really the name of a file. It is just a name for some commands to be executed when you make an explicit request." In other words, when you're done performing "make documents" you don't actually end up with a file called "documents" the way you would if you did, say, a "make hello" in a "hello world" project. "make documents" is just a way to invoke this set of commands from within the Makefile. _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
