On Fri, 18 Nov 2022 12:30:25 +1100 David Gibson <david(a)gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 06:49:32PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:I'm also a bit puzzled: after all, if 'pasta' exists, the 'pasta' target is up to date. Then I hit this while doing stuff on Debian packages, I don't remember what the exact sequence was. Well, in any case, it looks reasonable. -- StefanoIf you run the build several times it will fail unnecessarily with: ln -s passt pasta ln: failed to create symbolic link 'pasta': File exists make: *** [Makefile:134: pasta] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com>Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david(a)gibson.dropbear.id.au> I'm not sure why I haven't hit that before.