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On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 1:11 PM Thomas Lynch < thomas.ly...@reasoningtechnology.com> wrote: > We have had a lot of problems with phony hints being ignored and makefiles > not running. > > I've narrowed it down to a small example. See the transcript below in > this email, or the code at > > https://github.com/Reasoning-Technology/subu/tree/master/try/phony_general_targets_fail > > In this example there is a target, 'lib', and there happens to be a > directory with the same name - this is a common combination. There is a > phony declaration for lib, but it gets ignored. > > I've added a second phony target, 'version', which also has a directory. > That works. The only difference is that the target is not given as a > pattern. I've also run this example with a target that does not > correspond to a file or directory, and that also works as expected. > > So it appears that phony hints are ignored if targets are patterns rather > than literals. Consequently it appear that there is no way to give phony > hints in fancy makefiles that use general recipes. > > Seems the phony hints should be checked against the target provided to > make, which will be literal, and then prevent the directory search. > Apparently this is not the case. If it is only to be checked when there is > a match to a provided target, then that check would hopefully occur after > the pattern expansion. It isn't clear to me where else it is possible to > do the check, but somehow it is doing the check somewhere else. > > ----------------> > > 2019-04-02T10:48:22Z > user@host§~/subu_land/subu/try/phony_general_targets§ > > cat makefile > > > .PHONY: lib version > > version: > @echo "version 0.1" > > %:: > @echo $@ > > > > 2019-04-02T10:48:27Z > user@host§~/subu_land/subu/try/phony_general_targets§ > > mkdir version lib > > 2019-04-02T10:48:38Z > user@host§~/subu_land/subu/try/phony_general_targets§ > > ls > lib makefile version > > 2019-04-02T10:48:42Z > user@host§~/subu_land/subu/try/phony_general_targets§ > > make version > version 0.1 > > 2019-04-02T10:48:50Z > user@host§~/subu_land/subu/try/phony_general_targets§ > > make code > code > > 2019-04-02T10:48:57Z > user@host§~/subu_land/subu/try/phony_general_targets§ > > make lib > make: Nothing to be done for 'lib'. > > 2019-04-02T10:49:00Z > user@host§~/subu_land/subu/try/phony_general_targets§ > > > > >
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