[bug #49262] Update match-anything rule documentation

[anonymous]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #49262 (project make):

...which is some of the text that you're patching.  Sorry, should have looked
at the patch first.

That said, I don't thinking bringing up a particular case in match-any rule
processing is helpful in that earlier page about implicit-rules; match-any
rules are the particular case while implicit-rules are the general case, so
the detail belongs in the description of the former, as it is now.

Calling out being the prerequisite of a implicit-rule blocks non-terminal
match-any processing?  Hmm, I was going to say that it's implied by the last
paragraph on the page, but that paragraph is too restrictive, implying
.SUFFIXES and similar are involved in the creation of the dummy rules. 
However, even without dummy rules (as seen in the "-p" output), make will
refuse to use a non-terminal match-any rule for a prerequisite.  Something
does need to be reworded there.


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