On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 02:37:06PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
It doesn't work because it's not legal to create a pattern rule that
doesn't have a recipe. What you're trying to do is not create a pattern
rule, but rather create some kind of pattern-matched prerequisite
definition. GNU make doesn't support that feature.
In the GNU make manual you'll see that a pattern rule that has no recipe
is defined to delete that rule.
Thank you for the very helpful response and explanation.
-- Bob
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