On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 08:48 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > In this thread: > > http://lists.gnutls.org/pipermail/gnutls-devel/2013-September/006453.html > > and specifically in this message and its followups: > > http://lists.gnutls.org/pipermail/gnutls-devel/2013-September/006460.html > > there's evidence that GNU Make no longer treats suffix rules with > prerequisites "as normal files with funny names", as described in the > manual. > > Did the behavior indeed change, and if so, in what version of Make? I > couldn't find anything in NEWS, FWIW.
I went back to GNU make 3.74 and I can't find any version that behaves as the manual documents, including 3.8* or current HEAD. However they all behave the same way which means that I can't reproduce the problem described in the gnutls mailing list either. Maybe my test makefile has a flaw? #---------- .SUFFIXES: .SUFFIXES: .x .y .q .r .x.y: foo.h ; @echo cp $< $@ .q.r: ; @echo cp $< $@ #---------- Then I ran "touch foo.h foo.x foo.q". Now when I run both "make foo.r" and "make foo.y", it runs the appropriate suffix rule. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
