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Re: about :: sign and % sign problems


From: John Graham-Cumming
Subject: Re: about :: sign and % sign problems
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:34:05 +0200
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Lin George wrote:
% :: $(Foo);

Means: in order to build any file (that's what the % matches) from the prerequisites $(Foo) do nothing (that's what the ; means---if there was a command after the ; it would be executed when this rule ran).

%.test :: ;

In order to build anything that ends .test do nothing.

John.




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