Maybe I was wrong to call this a bug but would a feature like that break anything?
Am Mittwoch, den 03.03.2021, 13:55 -0500 schrieb Paul Smith: > On Wed, 2021-03-03 at 17:31 +0100, Goran V. wrote: > > $(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND)/%.html \ > > $(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND)/%.js \ > > $(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND)/%.css \ > > $(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND)/%.svg \ > > $(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND)/%.ico: > > @echo -n "$(FRONTEND) - building $@" > > @$(MD) $(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND) > > @cp $(FRONTEND)/$(@F) $@ > > @echo " ...done" > > I think you're misunderstanding what a pattern rule with multiple > targets means to GNU make. > > See: > https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Pattern-Intro.html > (last paragraph). > > It means that one invocation of the recipe will create ALL the > targets. > That's why make believes it's already considered all the other > targets > that are listed as patterns here, even though it only ran the recipe > one time. > > Note this is the opposite of what an explicit rule with multiple > targets means: that defines multiple unique rules, one for each > target. >
