Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 05:08:52 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: INDEX user-friendliness and SMP speed-up patch Message-ID: <20040315130852.GB25463@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <4055A9CF.1090805@fillmore-labs.com> References: <20040315103649.GA13718@xor.obsecurity.org> <40558B72.3090409@fillmore-labs.com> <20040315122621.GA24383@xor.obsecurity.org> <4055A9CF.1090805@fillmore-labs.com>
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--U+BazGySraz5kW0T Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 02:04:15PM +0100, Oliver Eikemeier wrote: > .PHONY [...] Targets with this attribute are always considered to b= e=20 > out of date. >=20 > basically >=20 > .PHONY: describe >=20 > means that make doesn't look for a file named `describe' first. Try >=20 > touch describe; make describe >=20 > in any port with and without adding `.PHONY: describe' to the Makefile. > You can get some more info with >=20 > make -d m describe >=20 > I know that the search path in ports make is usually very small, so it is > unlikely that you run into it. OTOH, go in any category directory and do >=20 > mkdir -p describe; make describe >=20 > with and without adding `.PHONY: describe' to bsd.port.subdir.mk. >=20 > IMHO declaring targets as PHONY makes sense, even though these are border= =20 > cases in the ports tree. I'll add that to PR 64233, since `extract patch= =20 > configure build install package' are really meant to be stand-alone targe= ts. Thanks for the explanation; yes, that sounds like a good idea. We already bumped into this once already with the port formerly known as 'clean' :-) Kris --U+BazGySraz5kW0T Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAVarkWry0BWjoQKURAmk0AKCKmy+fjd0FF64ZkvZ+jxb9eOYUiACglqFP MyOnS8j2k4vnbNWWx5UrfOI= =BJM1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --U+BazGySraz5kW0T--
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