On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 03:12:11PM +0200, Stephan Beal wrote: > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Greg Chicares <[email protected]>wrote: > > > # How to build it (if necessary). > > %.cdb : %.tcp > > tcprules $@ $*.tcp.tmp < $^ > > > > A slight addendum to that: pattern rules will never be invoked > "automatically" - there must be a named rule which refers to them. e.g. Make > has lots of built-in pattern rules, but none of them will activate unless > you actually name a file which resolves to one of the rules.
Can someone please explain the above in bit more detail? I am having a hard time understanding anything about pattern rules. I am not a C coder and the make reference manual talks in C mostly, making it difficult for me to understand topics like, archives pattern rules implicit rules With warm regards, -Payal -- _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
