Re: .PHONY:

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:

 Akim> [Sorry for the delays, I have suffered sysadmin issues.]
 Akim> 1BGDlh-0002d4-23-D

 Akim> Shouldn't .PHONY be factored in Makefile.in?

 Akim> ~/lectures/tiger-subject % grep .PHONY Makefile.am
 Akim> .PHONY: diff diffs
 Akim> ~/lectures/tiger-subject % grep .PHONY Makefile.in -A3
 Akim> .PHONY: all all-am am--refresh check check-am clean clean-generic \
 Akim> clean-local dist dist-all dist-bzip2 dist-gzip dist-info \
 Akim> dist-shar dist-tarZ dist-zip distcheck distclean \
 Akim> distclean-generic distcleancheck distdir distuninstallcheck \

A user-defined rule usually overrides an Automake defined rule.
.PHONY is currently the sole exception. 

Factoring it would be hard with the current implementation (user
rules are output before Automake rules are processed).  Is there
something wrong with multiple .PHONY lines anyway?
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz