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Re: Phony Target problem
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Kristof Provost |
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Re: Phony Target problem |
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Date: |
Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:57:46 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On 2011-10-12 22:14:00 (-0700), MD.Mahbubur Rahman <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Hi friends,
> I have following code in make file. I expected as the show is a phony
> target, it will not execute, but I found it executing. How can I prevent it?
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Your expectation is wrong.
A phony target is simply a target which doesn't create a file, so make
doesn't check if the file already exists before executing the rule.
See section 4.6 of the manual:
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Phony-Targets
Regards,
Kristof