Re: Tricky suffix rule problem for Corba

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "CARTER-HITCHIN, David, FM" <address@hidden> writes:

  cdf> The rule to build the headers is like this:

  cdf> %.h %.cc: %.idl
  cdf>  $(IDL_COMMAND) $(IDL_OPTIONS) $<

  cdf> This is the problem - the prerequisite $< is '../idl/a.idl' (for
  cdf> example) and the target is '../idl/a.h' when it should be just
  cdf> 'a.h'.

You don't say what you want to do with the .cc file but...

    %.h ../idl/%.cc : ../idl/%.idl
            $(IDL_COMMAND) $(IDL_OPTIONS) $<

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