Pattern rule instead of suffix rule in Makefile?

James E Keenan jkeen at verizon.net
Sat Jun 16 01:14:19 UTC 2012


On 6/15/12 2:41 PM, Gerhard R. wrote:
>> Would this be a problem for versions of 'make' other than GNU's?
>
> Nmake inference rules (see
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/968fkazs%28v=vs.71%29 ) are
> compatible with GNU make suffix rules, whereas pattern rules are not
> supported.
>

Thanks for that feedback.  I'll enter a comment about that so that we 
know we're stuck with the suffix rule.

jimk



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