Re: Problems with build target

[Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>]

> The reason is that inside of debian/rules a stamp-file is used
> to indicate that the build process was successful.  Unfortunately
> this stamp-file is called 'build' - similar to the target I have
> to use

That's what the .PHONY: target is for:

---
bash-2.01$ cat rules 

build:
        touch build

.PHONY: build

bash-2.01$ ls -l
total 1
-rw-r--r--   1 phil     phil           37 Mar 21 16:37 rules
bash-2.01$ make -f rules build
touch build
bash-2.01$ ls -l
total 1
-rw-r--r--   1 phil     phil            0 Mar 21 16:37 build
-rw-r--r--   1 phil     phil           37 Mar 21 16:37 rules
bash-2.01$ make -f rules build
touch build
bash-2.01$ ls -l
total 1
-rw-r--r--   1 phil     phil            0 Mar 21 16:38 build
-rw-r--r--   1 phil     phil           37 Mar 21 16:37 rules
bash-2.01$
---

It makes make ignore files of the same name as a .PHONY: dependent.

Cheers, Phil.


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