Follow-up Comment #4, bug #28983 (project make): The GNU make manual both supports and defeats Matt's statement.
"A phony target is one that is not really the name of a file." [..] "Once this is done, `make clean' will run the commands regardless of whether there is a file named clean." It would be a nuisance for the builds of pre-requisites of .PHONY to depend on existence of the files by the same name. Introducing an intermediate dependency can only reduce but not completely eliminate the possibility of a name clash. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?28983> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make