Makefile: Difference between revisions

The next one can take you by surprise. When you write a rule for ''make clean'', and there happens to be a file named ''clean'' in your working directory, you might be surprised to find that ''make'' does nothing, because the "target" of the rule ''clean'' already exists. To avoid this, declare such rules as ''phony'', i.e. disable the checking for a file of that name:

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clean:

 

dist: