Re: Expanded rules for scripts

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Dec 15, 2000, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:

> | > > .sh: configure.in
> | > >         # do sth
> | > 
> | > Even GNU make would not let you do it.
> | 
> | This is indeed definitely wrong and I don't know of any make where I've seen
> | this working but, to be honest, discovering once it was not working I
> | stopped trying :-)

> I must be missing something: why is it that clear it's wrong?

It's not really wrong, it just doesn't do what you want.

It means ``build the file named .sh out of configure.in'', not ``build
%.sh out of %, with the additional dependency on configure.in''.  I
think :-)

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