GNU make doesn't understand .for? suffix rules obsolete?

2011-03-02 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I just discovered that my FreeBSD Makefile fails miserably on a linux system with GNU Make 3.80. In particular I was surprised to find out that GNU make considers suffix rules obsolete: http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Suffix-Rules.html#Suffix-Rules I didn't think the suffix

Re: GNU make doesn't understand .for? suffix rules obsolete?

2011-03-02 Thread b. f.
In particular I was surprised to find out that GNU make considers suffix rules obsolete: http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Suffix-Rules.html#Suffix-Rules I didn't think the suffix rules are obsolete in BSD make, are they? No (Although maybe some people will argue that BSD

Re: GNU make doesn't understand .for? suffix rules obsolete?

2011-03-02 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 01:27:22PM +, b. f. wrote: In particular I was surprised to find out that GNU make considers suffix rules obsolete: http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Suffix-Rules.html#Suffix-Rules I didn't think the suffix rules are obsolete in BSD make,