Re: .PHONY non-rules

[Michael Ludwig]

Reinier Post schrieb am 22.03.2013 um 10:35 (+0100):
> On Fri Mar 22 01:37:01 2013, address@hidden (Magnus Fromreide) wrote:
> 
> > [...]
> > I couldn't find anything about .PHONY making it's dependants into
> > targets in the manual.
> 
> Um, that's the whole purpose of a .PHONY rule.
> 
>   http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Phony-Targets.html

Hmm, why would implicit target creation be the purpose of .PHONY ? One
could imagine (like Magnus) the usual error being flagged when a non-
existing .PHONY target is invoked. Instead, none is flagged; maybe as a
convenience to the user?

The above manual page does not document implicit target creation either.
To me, it looks like implicit no-rule target creation (as Dave Hylands
explained) is an undocumented feature of how .PHONY works.

Michael