Re: Newbie: Strange behaviour

[Paul D. Smith]

%% subnet <address@hidden> writes:

  s> Seems that "printstring", despite being phony, after the first use
  s> is considered up-to-date.  Is this the expected behaviour?

Yes.  A target will only be built at most once per invocation of make,
even a PHONY target.

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