On Feb 5, 2008, at 1:31 PM, Paul Smith wrote:

On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 13:22 -0800, Derek Clegg wrote:
I responded to Mike Shal in a similar vein.  If you're correct,
changing the order of the "dir/%.c:" lines would change the behavior,
but it doesn't appear to.

Mike's comment is right on the money: this:

        dir/%.c : foo.h

does NOT declare a pattern rule.  It _deletes_ a pattern rule...

Right, that's the part I was forgetting.

Thanks for both your responses.
Derek


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