Re: Why does `make' think Nothing to be done for `all' for my script?

[Paul Smith]

On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 14:28 +0800, PRC wrote:
> T
> #TARGET = AAXX.a
> 
> .PHONY : all clean
> 
> all: $(TARGET)

> And I run `make'
> $make
> make: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> 
> My expected target AAXX.a is not produced. I think `make' resolve the
> variable TARGET as null when it checks the target `all', so that it
> thinks nothing to be done for `all'.
> 
> Must I place the variable TARGET assignment before the target `all' in
> the Makefile?

Yes.  But you also must uncomment it.

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