Re: Wording in GNU Make manual regarding phony targets

[Dave Hylands]

Hi Johan,

> ... and using 'recursive make', I use the same FORCE target to enforce 
> recursion like in:
>
> .PHONY: FORCE $(subdirs) clean
>
> clean: FORCE
> <tab>{Commands to clean this level...}

Just declaring clean to be PHONY should be sufficient. phony targets
are always rebuilt. There isn't anything wrong with the way you did
it.

> FORCE : $(subdirs)

Is this a typo? I could understand

$(subdirs) : FORCE

but not the other way around.

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