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Re: [PATCH v4 01/36] Makefile: mark "check" target as .PHONY

From: Emily Shaffer <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-20 00:04:25

On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 09:38:27PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
Fix a bug in 44c9e8594e (Fix up header file dependencies and add
sparse checking rules, 2005-07-03), we never marked the phony "check"
target as such.
A simple enough change, and it gave me an excuse to go and look up what
.PHONY actually does. Thanks ;)
Perhaps we should just remove it, since as of a combination of
912f9980d2 (Makefile: help people who run 'make check' by mistake,
2008-11-11) 0bcd9ae85d (sparse: Fix errors due to missing
target-specific variables, 2011-04-21) we've been suggesting the user
run "make sparse" directly.

But under that mode it still does something, as well as directing the
user to run "make test" under non-sparse. So let's punt that and
narrowly fix the PHONY bug.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Emily Shaffer <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 Makefile | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c6f6246bf63..2ff038069e8 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2931,6 +2931,7 @@ hdr-check: $(HCO)
 style:
 	git clang-format --style file --diff --extensions c,h
 
+.PHONY: check
 check: config-list.h command-list.h
 	@if sparse; \
 	then \
-- 
2.33.0.rc0.595.ge31e012651d
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