Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 10:32:02PM -0500, Raja R Harinath wrote:
> > Well -- the whole idea is to remove the rule targets. I know of only
> > one use of multiple colons on a line -- in GNU make. Even there,
> > everything before a ':' is a rule target. My comment "limited to the
> > first ':'" may not be accurate, but I don't see any advantage to not
> > always removing everything before a ':'.
>
> it sounds as if you're saying that
>
> rule ::
> action
>
> is GNU-make specific, which is not true, of course.
Whoops. I forgot all about that. I was thinking of
foo.o bar.o: %.o: %.h; ...
Anyway, we are getting off-topic :-) The 'sed' rule under question is
applied to what's generated by an SGI compiler's dependency-generator.
- Hari
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