On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Paul Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2017-07-26 at 12:31 -0800, Britton Kerin wrote: >> It's still worth it to avoid non-static pattern rules though IMO. > > I use normal pattern rules all the time in all my makefiles. Love 'em, > and I see no point in trying to avoid them.
The points in avoiding are: they don't have the same tendency to fire in unintended circumstances (e.g. on generated code), and when they do (because you compute the target set wrong), the error messages are much less misleading. > YMMV of course, just providing a different viewpoint. But you're the god of make and not easily confused :) Unfortunately I don't have the examples on hand but after confusing myself badly with misfiring implicit rules a couple of times I decided it was best to just avoid them in favor of more exact static pattern rules. Britton _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
