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Re:Make for hipsters by ashitlerferad on Monday June 20, 2016 @05:54AM (#11937077)
Pop make quiz: what is the difference between these two Makefiles?

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foo: bar

bar:

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.PHONY: foo

foo:

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Re:Make for hipsters by jhjjhj on Monday June 20, 2016 @09:02AM (#11937671)
if bar happens to already exist no rules will execute for the first.
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