Re: Is there some option to make all targets phony?

[John Calcote]

Hi Pan,

On 8/17/2009 12:22 AM, Pan ruochen wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Here is my Makefile:
> --------------------------------------------------------
> PHONY: api FW
> all: api FW
> api:
>     @make -C DIR1 -n api
>     @make -C DIR2 -n api
> FW:
>     @make -C DIR1 -n clean depend all
>     @make -C DIR2 -n clean depend all
> --------------------------------------------------------
> I want to expand all the commands excuted by make. But there are some 
> problems since the target `clean' is not really executed.
> If the immediate object files and the final target file (ELF 
> executable) are present, make checks nothing has been changed. So make 
> just
> prints "Nothing to be done for `api' " instead of a series of commands 
> to get the final target.
>
> Is there some option to force make regard all targets in the Makefile 
> phony, so that I can get the commands whithout cleaning
> the immediate object files and the final target file.

Try using "make -B" or "make --always-make". Note you'll probably want 
to modify your sub-make command lines to pass these flags on down to 
lower level makes also (e.g., "@make -C DIR1 $(MAKEFLAGS) api").

Regards,
John