Re: forcing a rule

[Boris Kolpackov]

Hi Paul,

> It would break any makefile that needed a literal "$" in the
> prerequisites list.  Whether that is significant or not I don't know.
> It seems unlikely but then again make runs on lots of different
> platforms, and works with programs that have lots of different naming
> conventions.

This is true but than, $$@ is not an absolutely backward compatible 
feature either ;-).

I was thinking about establishing a generic mechanism for handling
such new features about which I give my thoughts in this thread

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-make/2004-03/msg00105.html

I would really appreciate it if you could comment on that.

thanks,
-boris

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