Re: .PHONY missing from the manual's index

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 14/10/20 12:43 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-10-14 at 13:18 +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> > Shouldn't special targets like .PHONY be listed in the index at
> >
> > https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/make/manual/html_node/Concept-Index.html#Concept-Index_cp_symbol-9
> >
> > ?
> > Similarly for .SUFFIXES and others.
>
> For some historically lost reason, GNU make contains two indexes.
>
> There's the concepts index which you referred to, but there's also the
> "Index of functions, variables, and directives" here:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Name-Index.html
>
> .PHONY, .SUFFIXES, etc. appear in this second index.

Oh, I see. I just clicked on [Index] at the top of one of the
html_node pages.

Now I see that the next node is "Name Index", but unless you're
looking for a second index that's not at all obvious. Oh well, I'll
try to remember that next time. Thanks!