Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934958AbcCOUpd (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:45:33 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:41479 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934917AbcCOUp2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:45:28 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: drop FORCE from PHONY targets To: Andy Lutomirski References: <1457828035-30584-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: Masahiro Yamada , Fenghua Yu , Thomas Gleixner , Russell King , Ingo Molnar , X86 ML , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Tony Luck , Nathan Lynch , "linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "H. Peter Anvin" From: Michal Marek Message-ID: <56E87463.9020300@suse.com> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 21:45:23 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 541 Lines: 12 Dne 15.3.2016 v 19:27 Andy Lutomirski napsal(a): > Fair enough, although I'm curious why this happens. It might be worth > changing the docs to say that .PHONY is *not* an substitute for FORCE > in that context, then. These two are unrelated, except that FORCE is redundant for a .PHONY target. FORCE is our idiom to tell make to always remake the target and let us handle the dependencies manually. Listing a target as .PHONY tells make that the target will not produce a file of the same name (typically, "all", "install", etc). Michal