Package: make
Version: 3.80-11
Severity: normal

make support implicit rule for .cpp, but not documented.

$ touch foo.cpp
$ ls Makefile makefile
ls: Makefile: No such file or directory
ls: makefile: No such file or directory
$ make foo.o
g++    -c -o foo.o foo.cpp

The following two parts in info should be upgrade

10.2 Catalogue of Implicit Rules
================================

[snip]

target `.SUFFIXES').  The default suffix list is: `.out', `.a', `.ln',
`.o', `.c', `.cc', `.C', `.p', `.f', `.F', `.r', `.y', `.l', `.s',
`.S', `.mod', `.sym', `.def', `.h', `.info', `.dvi', `.tex', `.texinfo',
`.texi', `.txinfo', `.w', `.ch' `.web', `.sh', `.elc', `.el'.  All of

[snip]

Compiling C++ programs
     `N.o' is made automatically from `N.cc' or `N.C' with a command of
     the form `$(CXX) -c $(CPPFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS)'.  We encourage you to
     use the suffix `.cc' for C++ source files instead of `.C'.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
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  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages make depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

make recommends no packages.

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