Re: Confused by old-style SUFFIX and/or implicit rules

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Trevor Jenkins <address@hidden> writes:

  tj> My problem comes that if I specify the required commands in the
  tj> SUFFIX or implicit rules then the actual commands have no need of
  tj> a command.

So?  Sounds great! :)

  tj> For example, I want

  tj> html: ${SGMLDOC}
  tj>   # what goes here?

  tj> pdf: ${XMLDOC}
  tj>   # and what goes here?

Maybe _nothing_ goes in either place.  If there is no operation needed
to create a file named "html" or "pdf", then there is no need to write a
script.  Not every target _has_ to have a script.

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