Re: ruleset not being executed

[Philip Guenther]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Payal <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have a simple makefile like this.
>
> $ cat Makefile
> .PHONY: one two
>
> obj = foo.c bar.c car.c
>
> one:
...
> $ make
...
> Why is ruleset "two" not executed?

To quote the GNU make info pages:
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9.2 Arguments to Specify the Goals
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The "goals" are the targets that `make' should strive ultimately to
update.  Other targets are updated as well if they appear as
prerequisites of goals, or prerequisites of prerequisites of goals, etc.

   By default, the goal is the first target in the makefile (not
counting targets that start with a period).  <...>
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Philip Guenther