Re: [SOLVED] [HELP] PHONY pattern rule makes the file w/ the same name

[Bahman Movaqar]

On Thu, 2023-10-05 at 13:11 +0200, Renaud Pacalet wrote:
> Could be related to 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Remaking-Makefiles:
> 
> > after reading in all makefiles make will consider each as a goal
> > target, in the order in which they were processed, and attempt to
> > update it

That's it!  Right there is the missing piece in my understanding!
I had no idea Make actually tries to make make files.

> So, in your case, make tries to update the 2 included makefiles 
> (mk/scenario1.mk and mk/scenario2.mk). As you provide pattern rules for
> that, make will build:
> 
> 1. foo1-by-scenario1 because mk/scenario1.mk depends on it
> 2. mk/scenario1.mk
> 3. foo2 because mk/scenario2.mk depends on it
> 4. mk/scenario2.mk
> 5. scenario1.first-scenario
> 6. sep
> 7. scenario2.second-scenario
> 
> The out is thus normal.

Absolutely right.  Now it all makes sense.

As suggested in the manual, I changed the `include's to mark the included
files as phony targets and got the behaviour I was expecting.


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include mk/scenario1.mk
include mk/scenario2.mk

.PHONY : mk/scenario1.mk
.PHONY : mk/scenario2.mk

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Thank you!

-- 
Bahman

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