Re: Error in gnu make?

[Hans-Bernhard Broeker]

j <address@hidden> wrote:
>       files-a.out b.out c.out

>       ${files}: % : %/*.in

> (I never will have but one .out file in each subdirectory, so I could
> do this).

> But this did not work either!  It seems that when using the pattern
> matching,the wildcard expansion turns off, 

It doesn't turn off.  It wasn't ever turned on in the first place.

> Note that the wildcard does work if I don't use a %....

>       This can not possible be a feature, not an error.  Comments?

Why can't it be a feature that only one of these two features works,
in a single given rule?  Actually, I guess what happens is that the
*order* of application of these two feature is what breaks your
example.  Wildcards are expanded as the makefile is read.  But as
there is no file '%/somename.in' or so in your current directory,
almost certainly, this won't be expanded.


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