Re: phony targets and dependency files (*.d)

[Alan Fitch]

In message <address@hidden>,
Paul D. Smith <address@hidden> writes
>> The problem is that the phony target ultraclean, always insists on
>> creating the *.d files if they don't exist.
>
>Certainly.
>
>This doesn't have anything to do with phony targets.
>
Oh well, I now am at least sure that I don't understand make :-)
My question was inspired by knowing that the clean target did *not*
cause the .o files to be re-created - but that's obviously a red
herring, as I'm not including the .o files.

<snip all the good advice>

Thanks for the advice,

kind regards

Alan


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