On 19/11/2009 11:07, Mark Blackman wrote:
On 19/11/2009 08:26, Simon Wistow wrote:
I have a Makefile (actually a Makefile.am from autoconf but that's
not important, I think( and it has the rule
%.1: -rm -f $@ pod2man --center="TimeSpliceDB Documentation" --lax \
--release='$(VERSION)' $(@).pod> $@
Which takes everything of the form<name>.1.pod and truns it into a
man page.
Which works fine and lovely on my available Mac and Linux boxen but
fails dismally on my FreeBSD box.
How does one do wildcard Make fules in bsdmake? Please tell me I
don't have to add 20 nearly identical rules because that will make me
cry.
I believe BSD make would normally handle these as transformations (with
specific suffix pairs) and they look like (adapted from
/usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/paper.ascii.gz)
.SUFFIXES : .pod .l
.l.pod :
-rm -f $@
pod2man --center="TimeSpliceDB Documentation" \
--lax --release='$(VERSION)' $< > $@
I've no idea if recent versions have a more gnumake-ish options.
And that example unintentionally reversed the dependency order
as well as leaving out the 'do all such files' bit.
It should have been '.pod.l' and needs a pseudo target like 'all'
to trigger the transformation rules.
- Mark
