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List:       netbsd-tech-toolchain
Subject:    Re: make: wilcard targets and .PHONY
From:       "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg () juniper ! net>
Date:       2013-05-17 19:54:44
Message-ID: 20130517195444.1681B58097 () chaos ! jnpr ! net
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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.

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