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Re: Misleading "--debug=w" output for phony target
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Frank Heckenbach |
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Re: Misleading "--debug=w" output for phony target |
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Wed, 18 Jan 2023 15:22:57 +0100 |
Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-01-18 at 14:45 +0100, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
> > % cat Makefile
> > .PHONY: a
> > a: b; :
> > % touch b; touch a; make --debug=w
> > Makefile:2: update target 'a' due to: b
> > :
> >
> > Of course, make should remake a, but not due to b but because it's
> > phony.
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> Please provide info about what version of GNU make you're using.
This was 4.4. I now see it's fixed in the latest RC, so forget about it. ;)