Follow-up Comment #1, bug #22442 (project make): I'm not sure your reading of POSIX is correct. It says:
----- Inference rules can be redefined. A target that matches an existing inference rule shall overwrite the old inference rule. An empty rule can be created with a command consisting of simply a semicolon (that is, the rule still exists and is found during inference rule search, but since it is empty, execution has no effect). The empty rule can also be formatted as follows: rule: ; where zero or more <blank>s separate the colon and semicolon. ----- To me this seems to reaffirm make's behavior: the rule exists and is found during inference rule search, but execution has no effect. I think you can get the behavior you want by some combination of removing suffixes in .SUFFIXES, and perhaps changing the order in which they appear. If not can you provide a simple test case? You can dummy out the actual compilation with touch and cp etc. commands. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?22442> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make