Re: Another fix in https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html

2018-02-09 Thread Martin Dorey
I think the opposite. Isn't it saying that a rule for building .o from .c will work for such files in any directory, but a rule for building release/%.o from %.c will only work in the current directory? On Feb 9, 2018, at 08:30, Howard Johnson wrote: In this section and paragraph: 10.5.4 How

Another fix in https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html

2018-02-09 Thread Howard Johnson
In this section and paragraph: 10.5.4 How Patterns Match ... "When the target pattern does not contain a slash (and it usually does not), directory names in the file names are removed from the file name before it is compared with the target prefix and suffix." I think it should instead read