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.
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