On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 11:21 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: > That's the point. If you don't make it PHONY, make keeps looking for a > file called documents to show up. Since we know one will never be > there, we can tell make not to bother looking. Look at all the things > automake declares as PHONY. > > .PHONY: $(RECURSIVE_CLEAN_TARGETS) $(RECURSIVE_TARGETS) CTAGS GTAGS \ > all all-am am--refresh check check-am clean clean-generic \ >
Correct, I read about that afterwards. Make will perform better as there is no need to locate a file and check time stamp and so on. To be nice to make, "lint" should also be listed in .PHONY.
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