On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:43 AM, baumann.pan <[email protected]> wrote:

> what's differenece between % and *?
>

http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Wildcards.html#Wildcards

Says:

" For example, *.c specifies a list of all the files (in the working
directory) whose names end in ā€˜.c’."

To me that implies that files specified by *.c have to already exist (or
they can't be matched), whereas %.c is a placeholder for a name which might
be used later on.

-- 
----- stephan beal
http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/
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