I'm not sure if the following will suit your needs.
Whenever I've had to deal with something like this (eg swig), I do something like:
file1: source.dtx source.ins
file2 file3: file1
HTH,
Noel
Martin Schr�der wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am generating source files from TeX documentation by using
> docstrip. This generates n files in one step. The obvious rule
>
> file1 file2 file3 : source.dtx source.ins
> latex source.ins
>
> will execute the command once for each file -- while every
> executing of the command generates all files.
>
> Patterns are not really a solution as the names of the source
> files don't depend on the target names; i.e. there would normally
> be no % on the right side of the rule. Older versions of gnu make
> (which I have to cope with) don't like this. :-{
>
> Is there any technique to handle this with rules and not loose
> the listing of every file as a target?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Martin
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