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Re: Suffix rules with dependencies


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Suffix rules with dependencies
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 19:42:36 +0300

> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 08:11:25 -0400
> 
> > there's evidence that GNU Make no longer treats suffix rules with
> > prerequisites "as normal files with funny names", as described in the
> > manual.
> > 
> > Did the behavior indeed change, and if so, in what version of Make?  I
> > couldn't find anything in NEWS, FWIW.
> 
> I went back to GNU make 3.74 and I can't find any version that behaves
> as the manual documents, including 3.8* or current HEAD.

Right.  So my hypothesis is now that what the Make manual describes is
how _non-GNU_ Make's behave.  IOW, the manual says that using
prerequisites in suffix rules is non-portable.



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