Re: Phony targets not being made

[Dmitry Goncharov]

Good morning.

Your makefile is incorrect.
Make does not search implicit rules for phony targets.

regards, Dmitry

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 2:31 PM <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have the following makefile
> --
> PHON1 := rr1 rr2
> PHON2 := rr1-sim
>
> .PHONY: all $(PHON1)
> # remove below line to get rr1-sim done
> .PHONY: $(PHON2)
>
> all: $(PHON1) $(PHON2)
>         @echo all done
>
> %-sim: %
>         @echo doing $@
>
> $(PHON1):
>         @echo doing $@
> --
> The command 'make' gives the output
> doing rr1
> doing rr2
> all done
> Thus rr1-sim is not done.
> The command 'make rr1-sim' gives the output
> make: Nothing to be done for 'rr1-sim'.
> Removing the phony declaration of rr1-sim makes things work as I expect.
> 'make' gives the output
> doing rr1
> doing rr2
> doing rr1-sim
> all done
>
> Is this a bug or is there anything wrong in the Makefile?
>
> Regards
> Christian Paulsen
>
>