"make clean" compiles files.

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Wed Jul 8 12:33:35 UTC 2015


On 8/07/2015 8:35 AM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> It is mildly surprising to see that "make clean" starts by compiling
> some files.
>
> $ make clean
> Compiling 5 files for BUILD_GENMODULESLIST

Yep - even "make nosuchthing" does the same thing. The reason, as 
previously explained to me, is that there has to be some processing to 
determine the set of valid make targets.

David

> -- Jon



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