[Bug 259886] make removes existing file with the same name as PHONY target on interrupt

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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 17:32:08 UTC

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=259886

--- Comment #1 from Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@FreeBSD.org> ---
bmake is not gmake

the behavior is as documented.
you can either use :: or .PRECIOUS to prevent the target being removed.

Note that .PHONY is unrelated to whether an actual file is created.
Indeed .PHONY is not needed in that case.

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