%% Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ez> I've verified on my system that suffix rules with prerequisites do
ez> seem to work, as in this example:
ez> .c.o: foo.h
ez> @echo $<
ez> Assuming you have foo.c and foo.h in your directory, type "make foo.o",
ez> and see Make echo the name "foo.c".
ez> Is something wrong with the assertion in the docs that "suffix rules
ez> cannot have any prerequisites"?
I seem to recall this came up before...
The thing is, they may have prerequisites but the prerequisites are
ignored. Make, unfortunately, doesn't even give a warning.
If you touch your foo.h above, you'll see that foo.o doesn't rebuild.
So, while it's not an error it still doesn't work.
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