>> I am sure there are legitimate cases where recursively (but not >> infinitely) applying pattern rules should be useful.
Dmitry Goncharov (6 November 2024 21:51) replied (inter alia):
> How do you teach make to allow some, but not infinite recursion?
Allow recursion whenever each step takes you to a strictly shorter
target name, as arises for directory-creation rules.
Eddy.
