> It would have been generated if you would have called make with a > command like: > LANG=C make --no-builtin-rules -f ../rule-check2.make MOTD.log
I hoped that I do not need to specify another file name for such command variant just to test a special default setting. > and if you had a rule to build MOTD.log I thought that the shown pattern rule should be sufficient. > In the documentation at > https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Rules.html it says: > > "a target that defines a pattern rule has no effect on the default goal." Thanks for your link. My expectations for the test example did not fit to this information then. Regards, Markus _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
