Re: (newbie problem #2?): make can't find my implicit rule

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Andy Voelkel" <address@hidden> writes:

  av> I've got two different kinds of source files. Here are the implicit
  av> rules I've defined:

  av> %.obj:%.c
  av>   $(DSPTOOLS)\cl500 $(COPT) -fr $(OBJDIR) -cg -i$(INCDIR) $<

  av> %.obj:%.asm
  av>   $(DSPTOOLS)\asm500 $(AOPT) -v548 -i$(INCDIR) $< $(OBJDIR)/$(@F)

  av> Gmake seems to be perfectly happy to build obj files out of c files, but
  av> not asm files. I looked at the debug output, and make says it can't find
  av> an implicit rule.

It works fine for me (on Linux-- I don't have a Windows box):

  $ cat Makefile
  %.obj:%.c
        echo '$(DSPTOOLS)\cl500 $(COPT) -fr $(OBJDIR) -cg -i$(INCDIR) $<'

  %.obj:%.asm
        echo '$(DSPTOOLS)\asm500 $(AOPT) -v548 -i$(INCDIR) $< $(OBJDIR)/$(@F)'

  $ touch foo.asm

  $ make
  echo '\asm500  -v548 -i foo.asm /foo.obj'
  \asm500  -v548 -i foo.asm /foo.obj

  av> Any idea why?

Please provide full information: an exact makefile, exact steps to
reproduce from an empty directory using simple tools, the version of GNU
make you're using (make --version), how it's compiled, etc.

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