---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Britton Kerin <britton.ke...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, Aug 10, 2022, 11:58 AM Subject: Re: Making makefiles with primarily phony targets more friendly To: Katherine Pata <m...@kitty.sh>
On Wed, Aug 10, 2022, 11:44 AM Katherine Pata <m...@kitty.sh> wrote: > I often find myself using makefiles to handle things like project linting, > container images, various scripts, initiating tests, and other misc tasks. > Sometimes these include tasks that have real dependencies that make should > keep track of, but often the vast majority of targets are phony. > > Something like --reverse-phony or a variable like .GENUINE or .REAL that > is mutually exclusive with .PHONY would be really helpful. > I'm not sure I like that exact solution since I don't have mostly phony targets. But I have enough that some more compact and less repetitive syntax would be really convenient. Britton > >
