I just put a patch onto Savannah with two new experimental functions
`index' and `foreachstar' (dumbly named!), and I am writing this mail
to explain it a bit.
Well, I started to explain, and I ended up rambling and theorizing --
and not just a little, and now I want to go make sure Miami loses t
>> On Sun, 9 Sep 2001 16:18:15 -0400, Paul D Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
P> In this case, what is basename of "%"? Just "%" itself, so you end up
P> with this:
P> foo.xx: %: %
Thank you for the clear explanation.
It is not the first time you have provided one for me!
I understand the explanation, but I do not understand why, if it applies to
the $(basename) function, it does not apply to the $(addsuffix) function.
If addsuffix behaved like basename, then the dependency list for the target
foo.yy would be ".zz" instead of "foo.yy.zz" (which it is by experiment
