I ran into this surprising behavior (GNU Make 4.2.1): -------------------- foo: phony touch foo
.PHONY: phony -------------------- $ gmake touch foo A nonexistent prerequisite is ignored if it is marked as phony. Is this a bug or a strange feature? A different make(1) implementation complains: $ make make: don't know how to make phony (prerequisite of: foo) -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make