how to allow multiple empty commands?

[Mark Galeck (CW)]

Hello, 

 

I would like to have this:

 

foobar:;

foobar:;

 

and make not complain about it (of course this is a SSCCE so please don’t ask  “why do you need this”). 

 

Is there a way to do this?  My attempts are below:

 

First, I thought I would do

 

.\foobar:;

.\foobar:;

 

since there is an obscure rule mentioned in the manual, that says in case of multiple commands for files starting with a “.”, make would not complain.  But it still does !  why is the rule not followed??

 

OK, if this does not work, then maybe I should do:

 

foobar::;

foobar::;

 

but this seems not so great, because it seems from the manual, that make would actually go around and execute all these empty commands (you realize that I have thousands of them in the realistic example, and thousands of such targets, so the speed matters, I think).  Would it?

 

Thank you,

 

Mark