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> All dependencies of the .PHONY pseudo-target will be rebuilt unconditionally when encountered. To be clear, they will rebuilt only if they are not already up

> All dependencies of the .PHONY pseudo-target will be rebuilt unconditionally when encountered. To be clear, they will rebuilt only if they are not already up to date relative to their own dependencies, right?

rahkiin 10y ago
yes. Phony is only about making sure that 'all' is seen as target, not as file or folder
- delinka 10y ago
  This is only an issue if you do indeed have files or folders named the same as targets, right? For example, if you do have an "all" file, you want make to ignore the file when considering the 'all' target, you'd apply .PHONY to the 'all' target.
  - dilap 10y ago
    right.