Larry Price wrote:

> Does anyone know of a good resource to help decode the intricacies
> of make (BSD make in this case although gmake _should_ be bug
> compatible) specifically the default suffix and filename expansion
> rules which do not seem to be listed in the man page .

Ever since 7th Edition Unix circa 1978, "make -p" has printed make's
complete set of rules.  Run it in a directory with no makefile to see
just the built-in rules.

On OpenBSD, make has no -p switch.  The equivalent command seems to be
"make -d g1".

-- 
Bob Miller                              K<bob>
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