On Mon Mar 4 19:35:37 2013, [email protected] (Mark Galeck) wrote: > Well, implicit chain does not work because of what Paul says in > the manual: > > "No single implicit rule can appear more than once in a chain. This > means that make will not even consider such a ridiculous thing as making > foo from foo.o.o by running the linker twice. This constraint has > the added benefit of preventing any infinite loop in the search for > an implicit rule chain"
I use a patch that adds an -M option to disable this restriction: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=21887 Discussed here: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30381 Since I wrote it, I've been looking for use cases other than my own. They seem to be pretty rare. On the other hand, the patch is rather simple; it may even make pattern rules easier to understand. -- Reinier Post TU Eindhoven _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
