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

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To make matters more complicated, in the previous snippet, if I declare
`echo.%' as below (w/o any pattern-rule prerequisite) then Make behaves
as expected.

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####################################################
# ./mk/echo.mk
####################################################

.PHONY : echo.%

echo.% :
	@echo 'echo invoked with "$(*)"'

####################################################
# shell
####################################################

$ make echo.hello-there

echo invoked with "hello-there"

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On Wed, 2023-10-04 at 07:34 -0700, Bahman Movaqar wrote:
> Hey all 👋
> 
> To my mind, whenever a target is marked as PHONY it is supposed to
> simply
> ignore files with the same name.  And that should be the behaviour of
> PHONY pattern rules too.
> 
> With that said, I need some help understanding what happens in the
> following scenario please.
> 
> 
> —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
> 
> ####################################################
> # shell
> ####################################################
> 
> $ ls *
> 
> Makefile
> 
> mk:
> echo.mk
> 
> ####################################################
> # ./Makefile
> ####################################################
> 
> include mk/echo.mk
> 
> ####################################################
> # ./mk/echo.mk
> ####################################################
> 
> .PHONY : a-target
> 
> a-target.% :
> 	@echo 'a-target invoked with "$(*)"'
> 
> ###
> 
> .PHONY : echo.%
> 
> echo.% : a-target.invoked-by-echo
> 	@echo 'echo invoked with "$(*)"'
> 
> ####################################################
> # shell
> ####################################################
> 
> $ make echo.hello-there
> 
> a-target invoked with "invoked-by-echo"
> echo invoked with "mk/mk"
> echo invoked with "hello-there"
> 
> —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
> 
> I wasn't expecting PHONY `echo.%' to be invoked for `echo.mk' which is
> a
> file.
> 
> Am I missing something obvious in my snippet?  Have I misunderstood the
> concept of PHONY?

-- 
Bahman

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