Re: [SOLVED] [HELP] PHONY pattern rule makes the file w/ the same name
Bahman Movaqar <[email protected]>
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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.
—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
include mk/scenario1.mk
include mk/scenario2.mk
.PHONY : mk/scenario1.mk
.PHONY : mk/scenario2.mk
—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
Thank you!
--
Bahman
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