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Re: Pattern rules and targets with no extension
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Philip Guenther |
Subject: |
Re: Pattern rules and targets with no extension |
Date: |
Fri, 8 Sep 2006 13:08:26 -0600 |
On 9/8/06, Boris Kolpackov <address@hidden> wrote:
GNU make does not use match-anything (%:) non-terminal (non-double
colon) implicit rules to build intermediate targets. I don't know
where this is documented in the manual but it is there in the code
(implicit.c:330).
This is described in section 10.5.5 "Match-Anything Pattern Rules":
One choice is to mark the match-anything rule as "terminal" by
defining it with a double colon. <...>
...
If you do not mark the match-anything rule as terminal, then it is
nonterminal. A nonterminal match-anything rule cannot apply to a file
name that indicates a specific type of data. A file name indicates a
specific type of data if some non-match-anything implicit rule target
matches it.
Philip Guenther