From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262147AbUCOR6T (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:58:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262640AbUCOR6T (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:58:19 -0500 Received: from pfepc.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.237]:30785 "EHLO pfepc.post.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262147AbUCOR6R (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:58:17 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 18:58:52 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Kai Germaschewski , Sam Ravnborg , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: [PATCH] out-of-tree builds Message-ID: <20040315175850.GA8456@mars.ravnborg.org> Mail-Followup-To: Geert Uytterhoeven , Kai Germaschewski , Sam Ravnborg , Linux Kernel Development References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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