I believe that .PHONY is a gnu-make ism, and for now, we at least
have to support nmake, and Solaris's /usr/ccs/bin/make, etc.
According to
http://www.bell-labs.com/project/nmake/faq/gmake.html
nmake has something similar called .VIRTUAL - someone could abstract
out the makefile-specifics of this, and have the various
makefile.in's automatically generate the best code for the particular
make you're using.
One of the original goals was to replace make with something driven
by miniparrot - If that's still a goal, our energy is probably better
spent doing that than customizing the generated makefiles.
At the moment, however, I'm of the mind: if it ain't broke, don't fix
it.
Regards.
On Jul 27, 2005, at 10:37 AM, Matt Fowles wrote:
Will~
Doesn't make have something called "PHONY" to handle that exact case?
Matt
On 7/27/05, Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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