RE: Making multiple action lines from a varaible

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 14:30 -0500, EXT-Pennington, Dale K wrote:

> > > phony-clean-%:
> > >     gmake -f $* clean
> > > 
> > > phony-all-%:
> > >     gmake -f $* all
> > > 
> > > .PHONY: $(CLEANTARGERS) $(ALLTARGETS)
> > > 
>  
> When we declared the CLEANTARGETS and ALLTARGETS as phoney, they no
> longer check them against the implicit rules (per online manual section
> 4.6). Once I comment out the .PHONY line all works well.

Another alternative is to use the old-style FORCE rules, like:

  phony-clean-%: .FORCE
        ....
  .FORCE:

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