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Re: .PHONY: %.only target
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Paul Smith |
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Re: .PHONY: %.only target |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:50:21 -0400 |
On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 11:17 +0800, baumann Pan wrote:
> .PHONY: %.only
> %.only:
> hi there $@
>
> why when there is a file match %.only, e.g. a.only
> make a.only will not not show hi there a.only.
The .PHONY target doesn't take patterns as prerequisites. Only
fully-qualified target names. The line ".PHONY: %.only" declares the
explicit target name '%.only' to be phony, not any target that matches
the pattern "%.only".
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