URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40657>
Summary: Suffix rules and prerequisites Project: make Submitted by: jmarshall Submitted on: Thu 21 Nov 2013 14:08:34 GMT Severity: 3 - Normal Item Group: Documentation Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Component Version: 3.81 Operating System: Any Fixed Release: None Triage Status: None _______________________________________________________ Details: The "Suffix Rules" info node states "Suffix rules cannot have any prerequisites of their own. If they have any, they are treated as normal files with funny names, not as suffix rules." However this appears to be incorrect. Here is the example following that text, with -DHELLO added so we can see it for certain: $ cat badsuffix.mk .c.o: foo.h $(CC) -DHELLO -c $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -o $@ $< $ touch hello.c $ make -f badsuffix.mk -n hello.o .c.o cc -DHELLO -c -o hello.o hello.c make: *** No rule to make target `foo.h', needed by `.c.o'. Stop. $ make -f badsuffix.mk -p | grep -B4 -A1 'badsuffix.mk.*line 2' [snip] %.o: %.c # commands to execute (from `badsuffix.mk', line 2): $(CC) -DHELLO -c $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -o $@ $< -- .c.o: foo.h # Implicit rule search has not been done. # Modification time never checked. # File has not been updated. # commands to execute (from `badsuffix.mk', line 2): $(CC) -DHELLO -c $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -o $@ $< So both a suffix rule and a rule for a funnily-named file have been made, and only one got the prerequisite. Perusal of the NEWS file suggests that this may have changed in 3.58 ("Suffix rules may have dependencies (which are ignored)"), but it seems that the documentation has not caught up. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40657> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make