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@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