> I used .phony in documentation/Makefile to force generation
> of the doc files manually independent of (not defined)
> dependencies.
>
> I couldn't find another example in our Makefiles and wonder
> whether this is standard or a GNU make extension. I could
> not find it on the web. Does anybody know?
>
> If it's not standard, how can we achieve the same with standard
> make?

You can probably get what you want by having a dependency on a
file that never exists:

always:   noSuchFile
    build always

noSuchFile:
    :

# remember that ':' is a dummy command on Unix

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