Re: [PATCH] out-of-tree builds

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 01:41:02PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately not everything works.
> 
> E.g. I need to build usr/ with a different (newer) binutils, so when the build
> fails on assembling usr/initramfs_data.o, I used to do the following, which no
> longer works:
> 
> | tux$ PATH=/usr/bin/:$PATH make usr/
> | make: `usr/' is up to date.
> | tux$
> 
> I guess I need a catch-all .PHONY rule, but don't know how to implement it...

Try:
.PHONY: $(MAKECMDGOALS)

or eventually
ifneq ($(MAKECMDGOALS),)
.PHONY: $(MAKECMDGOALS)
endif

The latter if an empty .PHONY is not allowed.

	Sam

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