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authorPaul Smith <psmith@gnu.org>2005-02-16 05:03:42 +0000
committerPaul Smith <psmith@gnu.org>2005-02-16 05:03:42 +0000
commite8ca9b8eb1caaa43703f6ce505af78c6e7b9e60b (patch)
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downloadgunmake-e8ca9b8eb1caaa43703f6ce505af78c6e7b9e60b.tar.gz
Add a patch from Paul Eggert that's been lying around in my directory for
a long time, disabling stack size limits where possible. Update version to beta2.
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@@ -2423,8 +2423,10 @@ prog3 : prog3.o sort.o utils.o
@end example
@noindent
-Now you can say just @samp{make} to remake all three programs, or specify
-as arguments the ones to remake (as in @samp{make prog1 prog3}).
+Now you can say just @samp{make} to remake all three programs, or
+specify as arguments the ones to remake (as in @samp{make prog1
+prog3}). Phoniness is not inherited: the prerequisites of a phony
+target are not themselves phony, unless explicitly declared to be so.
When one phony target is a prerequisite of another, it serves as a subroutine
of the other. For example, here @samp{make cleanall} will delete the