This is because there's a directory called "tcl". Since the directly already exists, there'd be nothing to make.

Picking a dummy target like this is a way to force the target to always be built, regardless.

On Jul 27, 2005, at 10:00 AM, Jerry Gay via RT wrote:

leo's fix (r8695) works just fine on windows :)

but what is all this .dummy business?

  tcl: tcl.dummy
  tcl.dummy:
      - $(MAKE_C) tcl
  tcl.test:
      - $(MAKE_C) tcl test
  tcl.clean:
      - $(MAKE_C) tcl clean


can't that just be
  tcl:
      - $(MAKE_C) tcl
etc.

~jerry



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