Hey all 👋
To my mind, whenever a target is marked as PHONY it is supposed to simply
ignore files with the same name. And that should be the behaviour of
PHONY pattern rules too.
With that said, I need some help understanding what happens in the
following scenario please.
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# shell
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$ ls *
Makefile
mk:
echo.mk
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# ./Makefile
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include mk/echo.mk
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# ./mk/echo.mk
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.PHONY : a-target
a-target.% :
@echo 'a-target invoked with "$(*)"'
###
.PHONY : echo.%
echo.% : a-target.invoked-by-echo
@echo 'echo invoked with "$(*)"'
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# shell
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$ make echo.hello-there
a-target invoked with "invoked-by-echo"
echo invoked with "mk/mk"
echo invoked with "hello-there"
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I wasn't expecting PHONY `echo.%' to be invoked for `echo.mk' which is a
file.
Am I missing something obvious in my snippet? Have I misunderstood the
concept of PHONY?
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Bahman
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