Messages in this thread | | | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Date | Tue, 15 Mar 2016 13:48:13 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kbuild: drop FORCE from PHONY targets |
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> wrote: > Dne 15.3.2016 v 19:27 Andy Lutomirski napsal(a): >> Fair enough, although I'm curious why this happens. It might be worth >> changing the docs to say that .PHONY is *not* an substitute for FORCE >> in that context, then. > > These two are unrelated, except that FORCE is redundant for a .PHONY > target. FORCE is our idiom to tell make to always remake the target and > let us handle the dependencies manually. Listing a target as .PHONY > tells make that the target will not produce a file of the same name > (typically, "all", "install", etc). >
Except that apparently if-changed doesn't work on .PHONY targets that don't specify FORCE, which confuses me.
--Andy
-- Andy Lutomirski AMA Capital Management, LLC
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