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Re: double-colon AND phony rules


From: Paul Smith
Subject: Re: double-colon AND phony rules
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 20:31:19 -0400

On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 09:47 -0400, Adam Kellas wrote:
> .PHONY: all clean
> 
> all:
>        [create a couple of files]
> 
> clean:
>        [remove target files]
> 
> But in this form "all" and "clean" will break when included. Any
> reason not to use "all::" and "clean::" throughout the build system?

No reason that I can think of.

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