Re: PHONY targets and implicit rules

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 12:28 +0400, Ilya Loginov wrote:
> > > 2) Why in second case I get message "Nothing to be done for
> `Makefile'"?
> > 
> > Your Makefile, if taken literally, would result in an infinite loop,
> > as make would have to build the Makefile, then reinvoke itself, then
> > rebuild the Makefile, then reinvoke itself, etc.  So, since your
> > Makefile is broken, *anything* make does is correct.  No?
> 
> Really, it's not clear for me. Why make reinvokes itself?

Read the section "How Makefiles are Remade" in the GNU make manual.

Cheers!

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