I don't understand exactly what happens if I clear the .SUFFIXES: target. Yes, the built-in pattern rules, normally generated for the suffixes present in .SUFFIXES, will disappear. However, a number of suffix-rules seem to disappear as well (only single suffix rules), while others remain.Maybe this doesn't affect the way make interprets the Makefile, but still I'm curious. As an example, the .c: suffix rule remains, the .tex: suffix rule is removed. Does anyone know why? (I used 'make -p' to find out about the diffs.)
thanks, Gert The diffs: diff suffixrules_default suffixrules_cleared 11,12c11 < .SUFFIXES: .out .a .ln .o .c .cc .C .cpp .p .f .F .r .y .l .s .S .mod .sym .def .h .info .dvi .tex .texinfo .texi .txinfo .w .ch .web .sh .elc .el < .a: --- > .SUFFIXES: 18d16 < .ch: 22,25d19 < .def: < .dvi: < .el: < .elc: 28,29d21 < .h: < .info: 33,34d24 < .l: < .ln: 38d27 < .out: 47d35 < .sym: 49d36 < .tex: 52d38 < .texi: 55d40 < .texinfo: 58d42 < .txinfo: 61d44 < .w: 64d46 < .web: 67d48 < .y: _______________________________________________ help-gnu-utils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-utils
