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Tyilo
Tyilo

Reputation: 30102

Rule for all targets in make - even if the file exists

I want to create a Makefile that outputs foo no matter what target name is given to make.

So all of these should work:

$ make
foo
$ make a
foo
$ make foobar
foo

The following Makefile does almost what I want:

all %:
    @echo foo

.PHONY: all

However it fails if there exists a file with the same name as the target:

$ touch abc
$ make abc
make: `abc' is up to date.

As .PHONY doesn't accept pattern rules, I don't know how I can get make to ignore every file.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 206

Answers (1)

MadScientist
MadScientist

Reputation: 100856

How about:

all $(MAKECMDGOALS): ; @echo foo
.PHONY: all $(MAKECMDGOALS)

Upvotes: 2

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