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Support real .PHONY targets #3

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Hoboneer opened this issue Aug 2, 2021 · 0 comments
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Support real .PHONY targets #3

Hoboneer opened this issue Aug 2, 2021 · 0 comments

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Hoboneer commented Aug 2, 2021

From what i've seen in the wild, targets that, in make, would be marked .PHONY aren't anything special in the eyes of redo.

They're just run with redo, while their dependencies would be run with redo-ifchange.

What happens if a file with the same name exists? If used with redo, there's no problem, but if used with redo-ifchange, nothing is run.

Distinguishing real, phony, and "virtual" (multi-output) targets might help:

  1. users unfamiliar with the repo, since a command like redo-targets -p (p for phony) could be run; and
  2. other programs, which could use that information for other purposes (such as autodocs, or linting the project's .do files?)
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