%% Assar Westerlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
aw> While building the current autoconf with gnu-make 3.75 I've had
aw> problems in `man', since $* did get expanded to the complete path of
aw> the dependency and not just the file name. I've seen similar
aw> behaviour from other instances of make, and while not knowing what is
aw> the correct way for making to behave here I think some extra care
aw> doesn't hurt.
The $* variable always expands to the entire part of the target filename
which _doesn't_ match the suffix.
If the suffix is ".x" and the target is "foo.x", then $* is foo. If the
target is "/bar/baz/biz/foo.x", then $* is /bar/baz/biz/foo.
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