Re: A problem with "intermediate files"

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 12:30:44AM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> Sorry for the delay.

Thank you very much for your help.

>  Stepan> SUFFIXES = .list
> 
> That should be needed only if your extensions do not start with
> a dot.  I thought I had this documented, but I cannot find
> where.

Thanks for teaching me.  I'd like to ask a related question; recently,
I did this:

SUFFIXES = .schemas.in .reg .hkcu.reg
.schemas.in.reg:
        schemas-to-reg.exe $< >$@
.schemas.in.hkcu.reg:
        schemas-to-reg.exe -c $< >$@

is this correct?  I guess this also couldn't work without the
SUFFIXES declaration.

>  Stepan> non-intermediate: gnm-genmarshals.c
... 
> Then, why not simply output
> 
> gnm-genmarshals.c: gnm-genmarshals.list
> 
> ?
> 
> (See also tests/suffix8.test and its history.)

If there were many such files, then the former variant is shorter.
But I'd have to check that Sun make understands this.

Have a nice day,
        Stepan Kasal