Re: .PHONY, FORCE, target execution

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Leeuwesteijn,Joost" <address@hidden> writes:

  l> See the zut.mk example below. When I run 'make -f zut.mk' I
  l> expected the banner target to be executed twice, but it
  l> doesn't. Just once, for module1.  I thought .PHONY targets would
  l> always be executed, but 'always' seems to be limited to once; which
  l> is probably the 'make' thing to do.

Correct.  Any given target, .PHONY or not, will be executed at most once
per invocation of make: once make has run a command to build a target
that target is considered "up-to-date" for that invocation of make,
regardless of what the command script actually did, if anything.

  l> Is it possible to force the execution of the banner target?

No; the only way to do it is to re-invoke make recursively to build the
target.

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