Re: Expanded rules for scripts

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> writes:

Alexandre> On Dec 14, 2000, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:
>> My understanding was that not all Make support

>> .sh: # do foo out of foo.sh

>> properly, i.e., implicit rules with destination having no suffix.

Alexandre> I've never found a `make' that doesn't support it, but some
Alexandre> recent versions of FreeBSD make have a bug in which the
Alexandre> order of entries in .SUFFIXES affects its ability to
Alexandre> process some suffix rules.

Well there was much left in ``properly''.  My understanding was that
Pavel found a host where make was very happy with just those suffix
rules, but broken when we introduced extra dependencies.  I don't
remember whether it was

.sh: configure.in
        # do sth

or

.sh: configure.in
        # do sth
autoconf.sh: some-other-dependency

that was responsible (is ``responsible'' right here?).