Re: Change behaviour of a multiple target rule

[Gerald Lutter]

> GNU make supports this capability but ONLY for pattern rules.
> So if your $(targetlist) can be expressed as a pattern rule
> (that is, there's some commonality between the target names)
> then it can work.  For
> example:
>
>       %.x %.y %.z : %.q
>               recipe
>
> Only one instance of "recipe" will be invoked, and it will be expected to
build all of the targets.

thank you, i'll give it a try with a pattern rule.

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