Re: .PHONY: %.only target

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 11:17 +0800, baumann Pan wrote:

> .PHONY: %.only
> %.only:
>           hi there $@
> 
> why when there is a file match %.only, e.g. a.only
> make a.only will not not show hi there a.only.

The .PHONY target doesn't take patterns as prerequisites.  Only
fully-qualified target names.  The line ".PHONY: %.only" declares the
explicit target name '%.only' to be phony, not any target that matches
the pattern "%.only".

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