[PATCH] powerpc/Makefile: Mark phony targets as PHONY

Masahiro Yamada masahiroy at kernel.org
Tue Feb 18 23:40:26 AEDT 2020


On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 8:19 PM Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>
> Some of our phony targets are not marked as such. This can lead to
> confusing errors, eg:
>
>   $ make clean
>   $ touch install
>   $ make install
>   make: 'install' is up to date.
>   $
>
> Fix it by adding them to the PHONY variable which is marked phony in
> the top-level Makefile. In arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile we do it
> manually.


You can do likewise in arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
because it is marked phony in scripts/Makefile.build





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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada


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