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

Bahman Movaqar <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.make.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 2023-10-04 at 10:38 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-10-04 at 07:34 -0700, Bahman Movaqar wrote:
> > .PHONY : echo.%
> 
> That makes the specific target named, literally, "echo.%" into a phony
> target.  .PHONY doesn't accept wildcards.

TIL  

Thanks for the answer.  Though this confuses me even further!  Please see
my follow up message.

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Bahman

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