Re: Checking file generation for a test script

[SF Markus Elfring]

> It would have been generated if you would have called make with a
> command like:
> LANG=C make --no-builtin-rules -f ../rule-check2.make MOTD.log

I hoped that I do not need to specify another file name for such command variant
just to test a special default setting.


> and if you had a rule to build MOTD.log

I thought that the shown pattern rule should be sufficient.


> In the documentation at
> https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Rules.html it says:
> 
> "a target that defines a pattern rule has no effect on the default goal."

Thanks for your link.

My expectations for the test example did not fit to this information then.

Regards,
Markus