Re: make: wilcard targets and .PHONY

To: David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: make: wilcard targets and .PHONY
From: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg%juniper.net@localhost>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 12:54:44 -0700

On Fri, 17 May 2013 17:38:25 +0000, David Holland writes:
>Do you have a model in mind for wildcard expansion in make? (Not just
>here, but elsewhere in the language...)

No, just fixing a bug wrt the documented behavior.
Obviously the combination of wildcard targets and .PHONY is rare,
but there are a number of examples in the FreeBSD ports tree,
and having to use gmake rather than bmake to build them is a pitty.

References:
- make: wilcard targets and .PHONY
  - From: Simon Gerraty
- Re: make: wilcard targets and .PHONY
  - From: David Holland

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