[CRIU] [PATCH 2/6] Makefiles: don't use the FORCE, Luke!

Cyrill Gorcunov gorcunov at gmail.com
Tue Feb 23 08:16:07 PST 2016


On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 06:44:12PM -0800, Kir Kolyshkin wrote:
> With GNU make, using .PHONY leads to the same result as using
> the "FORCE" hack, but unlike FORCE is not a hack. Since we do not
> plan to use any other make than GNU make, let's just mark phony
> targets as such.
> 
> For more details about why PHONY is better than FORCE, see
> http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#index-FORCE
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kir Kolyshkin <kir at openvz.org>

Please don't modify nmk code together with the rest. Split
the patch please. And Ack from my side.


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