Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group <austin-group-l@opengroup.org>
wrote:
> Paul Smith wrote, on 07 Nov 2020:
> >
> > Unless we are proposing pattern rules for inclusion in POSIX, [...]
>
> This was proposed in 2011 in bug 513, which is still open.
the problem with this bug report is that I got the impression, it started with
the wrong intention.
The important point is that you need pattern rules if you like to put
compilation results into platform specific sub-directories.
I like to get pattern rules into the standard by only requiring a subset of
what
has been available since January 1986.
The documentation is currently on page 30 of the man page:
http://schilytools.sourceforge.net/man/man1/make.1s.html
I would only standardize the form:
tp%ts: dp%ds
rule
and mention
tp%ts: [dependency ...] dp%ds [dependency ...]
rule
only as a potential enhancement that is not part of the standard.
Smake e.g. currently only supports:
tp%ts: dp%ds
rule
and
tp%ts:
rule
BTW: this reminds me that I need to add documentation for:
tp%ts:
rule
Note that the behavior of SunPro Make was not changed since 1986 with regards
to pattern matching rules.
Do you believe we have a chance to get to a text for Issue-8?
Jörg
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