Re: confused about double-colon "terminal" rules

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Robert P. J. Day" <address@hidden> writes:

  rpjd> "One choice is to mark the match-anything rule as terminal by defining
  rpjd> it with a double colon.

  rpjd> so i have this trivial makefile:

  rpjd> t1::    hi
  rpjd>         @echo hi there

That's not a match-anything rule.  That's an explicit double colon
rule.  A match-anything rule is a pattern rule with no prefix or suffix:

    %:
            @echo "Hi!  I'll match anything!  Today I matched $@"

Or to make it terminal:

    %::
            @echo "Hi!  I'll match anything, terminally!  Today I matched $@"

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