mk works as expected, but not mk2 Seems like static pattern rule is the differentce. How to make mk2 work similar to mk?
$ cat mk %.o: ../%.c @echo R0 $@ $< all: aa/bb/obj/x.o aa/bb/obj/y.o aa/bb/x.c aa/bb/y.c: touch $@ $ make -f mk R0 aa/bb/obj/x.o aa/bb/obj/../x.c R0 aa/bb/obj/y.o aa/bb/obj/../y.c $ cat mk2 %.o: ../%.c @echo R0 $@ $< all: aa/bb/obj/x.o aa/bb/obj/y.o aa/bb/obj/x.o: %.o: ../%.c @echo R1 $@ $< aa/bb/x.c aa/bb/y.c: touch $@ $ make -f mk2 make: *** No rule to make target `../aa/bb/obj/x.c', needed by `aa/bb/obj/x.o'. Stop. James _______________________________________________ help-gnu-utils mailing list help-gnu-utils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-utils