> You can disable this behavior for specific targets using make’s built-in .PHONY target name, but the syntax is verbose and can be hard to remember. I think t

> You can disable this behavior for specific targets using make’s built-in .PHONY target name, but the syntax is verbose and can be hard to remember. I think this is overstating things a bit. I first read `.PHONY` in a Makefile while i was a teenager and i figured out what it does just by looking at it in practice. Makefiles do have some weirdness (e.g. tab being part of the syntax) but `.PHONY` is not one of them.