gmake and implicit dependencies

[Didier Verna]

       Hello,

consider this simple makefile, along with a file test.ext and test.dep:

%.ext:
        @echo $@

%.ext: %.dep


Even when test.dep is more recent, gmake tells me that test.ext is up to
date. If however I replace the second rule with an explicit dependency,
as in:

test.ext: test.dep

then, test.ext is correctly seen as outdated.


Does anyone have an explanation ? This is with version 3.81 of gmake
(current on my Debian system).

Thanks !

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