Re: Make phony target problem.

[Erwin Waterlander]

Paul D. Smith wrote:

%% Erwin Waterlander <address@hidden> writes:

  ew> I tried a very simple example from the GNU make manual section 4.6
  ew> about phony targets. It does not seem to work as described. The
  ew> targets are not remade when I run make a second time. See
  ew> attachement.

You've only declared the target "all" to be phony.  So only "all" itself
will be remade every time.

Targets that all depends on, like prog1 and prog2, are not declared
phony so they use make's normal build avoidance rules and are not built
unless they're deemed out of date.

  

Hi,

Then the manual is wrong. My example is exactly like the example in section 4.6. See:
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_chapter/make_4.html#SEC41

Here I quote the manual:

``

Phony targets can have prerequisites. When one directory contains multiple programs, it is most convenient to describe all of the programs in one makefile `./Makefile'. Since the target remade by default will be the first one in the makefile, it is common to make this a phony target named `all' and give it, as prerequisites, all the individual programs. For example:

all : prog1 prog2 prog3 .PHONY : all prog1 : prog1.o utils.o cc -o prog1 prog1.o utils.o prog2 : prog2.o cc -o prog2 prog2.o prog3 : prog3.o sort.o utils.o cc -o prog3 prog3.o sort.o utils.o

Now you can say just `make' to remake all three programs, or specify as arguments the ones to remake (as in `make prog1 prog3').

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