Re: Make: Can implicit rules be forced to make non-existing prerequisites?

Henrik Carlqvist <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.utils
Organization SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Jan T. Kim" <[email protected]> wrote:
> .PHONY : install uninstall check clean $(RPRACKS) $(RPACKS_INSTALL)

> Obviously, make handles the explicit jtkstuff-install rule differently
> from the implicit %-install rule in that it does execute the commands
> for the former while it considers the implicitly specified target
> xpipe-install to be remade without actually doing anything.
> 
> Is there any way to change this behaviour?

Try to remove $(RPRACKS) from the .PHONY line like this:

.PHONY : install uninstall check clean $(RPACKS_INSTALL)

It seems as if phony targets does not work in implicit rules.

regards Henrik
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