On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dne 15.3.2016 v 19:27 Andy Lutomirski napsal(a): >> Fair enough, although I'm curious why this happens. It might be worth >> changing the docs to say that .PHONY is *not* an substitute for FORCE >> in that context, then. > > These two are unrelated, except that FORCE is redundant for a .PHONY > target. FORCE is our idiom to tell make to always remake the target and > let us handle the dependencies manually. Listing a target as .PHONY > tells make that the target will not produce a file of the same name > (typically, "all", "install", etc). > Except that apparently if-changed doesn't work on .PHONY targets that don't specify FORCE, which confuses me. --Andy -- Andy Lutomirski AMA Capital Management, LLC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
