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Make has phony targets for when you don't want a file. Any update criterion can be delegate to a script or a helper tool such as with latexmk for building LaTeX
by eddieh 6y ago
Make has phony targets for when you don't want a file. Any update criterion can be delegate to a script or a helper tool such as with latexmk for building LaTeX documents with Make.
- rhn_mk1 6y agoThe phony target is a problem because it can't be an input to another stage of the process. It's a good thing that the update criterion can be delegated, but this should really be a thing that has a wide range of builtin options, both for ergonomics, and for avoidng mistakes. "Goals" comes to mind: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs-talks.git;a=blob;f=2020-goals/notes.txt;h=b03d9e5ea1062869c642a1850a09340ea1575116;hb=HEAD http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs-talks.git;a=blob;f=2020...