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

[Raja R Harinath]

Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> writes:
> 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.

Whoops.  I forgot all about that.  I was thinking of

  foo.o bar.o: %.o: %.h; ...

Anyway, we are getting off-topic :-)  The 'sed' rule under question is
applied to what's generated by an SGI compiler's dependency-generator.

- Hari
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