Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> wrote:
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > The Makefile
> >
> > xc/programs/dpsinfo/Makefile
> >
> > contains:
> >
> > .psw.c : $(PSWRAP)
> > $(PSWRAP) -a -o $*.c -h $*.h $<
> >
> >
> > This syntax is neither covered by the POSIX make standard
> > nor by the Sun make man page.
> > I would call this a bug and my smake program uses this kind of
> > Syntax for "Simple Suffix Rules". As a result, smake cannot
> > compile X.
> >
> > Sun make and GNU make both seem to ignore the superfluous $(PSWRAP)
> > past the colon.....
>
> Is it a GNU make-ism? Those slip in from time to time, and either the
> BSD guys or our Solaris builds normally catch those if they break the
> build, but if it simply continues on without error it could easily slip by.
After I fixed my parser not to allow the old (1985) simple suffix rules
in case that the right side includes a slash, it works for me with smake too.
So it seems that the fact that it did work with Sun make and gmake is a result
of a lazy written parser :-)
J?rg
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