"Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> See the second paragraph in the GNU make manual section "How Patterns
> Match". If the target doesn't contain a slash, then directory names
> are removed from the file name before it is compared.
Thanks. I guess I'll need to do "make bar/b/c" instead of "make b/c",
so that the target can be "bar/%" instead of "%".
> > I'm almost certain this used to work.
>
> I tried versions of GNU make all the way back to 3.74 with this
> example, and they all behaved as above (no rule to make target...).
Maybe I was thinking of Solaris make. I just tried it, and it does what
I was expecting ("make b/c" uses the rule "%: bar/%.foo").
AMC
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