> From: Paul Smith <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 08:11:25 -0400 > > > there's evidence that GNU Make no longer treats suffix rules with > > prerequisites "as normal files with funny names", as described in the > > manual. > > > > Did the behavior indeed change, and if so, in what version of Make? I > > couldn't find anything in NEWS, FWIW. > > I went back to GNU make 3.74 and I can't find any version that behaves > as the manual documents, including 3.8* or current HEAD.
Right. So my hypothesis is now that what the Make manual describes is how _non-GNU_ Make's behave. IOW, the manual says that using prerequisites in suffix rules is non-portable. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
