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
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