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Top Forums Programming PHONY target is not working Post 302433373 by paradox242 on Tuesday 29th of June 2010 10:52:38 AM
Old 06-29-2010
Obviously you have the right idea that you want to create a phony target, since any file 'clean' would show as up to date since it has no dependancies.

Your code does not work however because the built-in name for phony targets is actually .PHONY not PHONY. I tested the following to work on a Debian system using GNU make:

Code:
 
.PHONY: clean
clean:
     rm -f hello.txt bye.txt
     @echo "Files are deleted"

Last edited by paradox242; 06-29-2010 at 12:39 PM..
 

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