Re: SGI mode depcomp breaks when '.' appears in source filenames twice

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 10:32:02PM -0500, Raja R Harinath wrote:
> Well -- the whole idea is to remove the rule targets.  I know of only
> one use of multiple colons on a line -- in GNU make.  Even there,
> everything before a ':' is a rule target.  My comment "limited to the
> first ':'" may not be accurate, but I don't see any advantage to not
> always removing everything before a ':'.

it sounds as if you're saying that

rule ::
        action

is GNU-make specific, which is not true, of course.

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