Re: Bug or correct behavior?

[Derek Clegg]

On Feb 5, 2008, at 1:31 PM, Paul Smith wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 13:22 -0800, Derek Clegg wrote:
> > I responded to Mike Shal in a similar vein.  If you're correct,
> > changing the order of the "dir/%.c:" lines would change the behavior,
> > but it doesn't appear to.
>
> Mike's comment is right on the money: this:
>
>         dir/%.c : foo.h
>
> does NOT declare a pattern rule.  It _deletes_ a pattern rule...

Right, that's the part I was forgetting.

Thanks for both your responses.
Derek