Canned recipes

[Harvey Chapman]

I copied an example from the make manual and I don't see why it doesn't work. 
It never runs the canned recipe commands.

Thank you,
Harvey

$ cat Makefile
# From http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Canned-Recipes
# 5.8 Defining Canned Recipes

define run-yacc =
yacc $(firstword $^)
mv y.tab.c $@
endef

foo.c : foo.y
        @echo "Just before"
        $(run-yacc)

foo.y:
        touch $@

.PHONY: clean
clean:
        rm -f foo.y foo.c

$ make --version
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for i386-apple-darwin10.0
$ make 
touch foo.y
Just before
$ 


$ make --version
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for i486-pc-linux-gnu
$ make
touch foo.y
Just before
$