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Re: Match-Anything rule
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Paul D. Smith |
Subject: |
Re: Match-Anything rule |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Dec 2000 20:38:51 -0500 |
%% Michal Svec <address@hidden> writes:
ms> % : /some/path/%
ms> cp $< $@
ms> It is OK, but if I want to expand a file with a dir, it is not correctly
ms> expanded, instead of:
ms> foo/file: /some/path/foo/file
ms> It expands to
ms> foo/file: /foo/some/path/file
ms> Any comments? Is this a bug or a feature?
This is how patterns are documented to expand. Check the GNU make
manual section "How Patterns Match".
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