Hi Dmitry,
Thanks for the quick reply.
On Friday 04 July 2025 at 20:38:25 -0400, Dmitry Goncharov wrote:
> You should not mark included makefiles as phony. i don't think marking
> included files as phony was ever intended.
But it did work for a long time. :-)
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM M
On Fri, Jul 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM Mike Crowe via Bug reports and
discussion for GNU make wrote:
> Strangely there's no complaint that .real-file doesn't actually exist.
That's intended. Make is silent here to allow dependency files to be generated.
> It looks like this change is probably a result
If I create a Makefile:
--8<--
.PHONY: all
all:
: late
.PHONY: /dev/null .early-generation
/dev/null: .early-generation
include /dev/null
.early-generation:
: early
-->8--
when run on GNU Make 4.3[1] the output is:
: early
: late
whereas when run on GNU Make 4.4.1 the output
