Re: Static pattern usage

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Sam Ravnborg <address@hidden> writes:

  sr> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 05:26:54PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:

  >> No make expands $* in the prerequisites list to the name of the target.

  sr> Hmmm..

  sr> foo.o : _$* FORCE
  sr>   echo $^

  sr> FORCE:

  sr> I expected make to print out:
  sr> make: *** No rule to make target `_foo.o', needed by `foo.o'.  Stop.

  sr> But I got:
  sr> make: *** No rule to make target `_', needed by `foo.o'.  Stop.

  sr> That seems to me that make does not expand $* to the target.

Yes, that's what I said.  No make expands this way.  Or using other
words, "no version of make exists that expands this way".

If I had wanted to write that make _did_ do this, I would have added a
comma or semicolon.  This would mean "you're incorrect, make does expand
$* ...":

  No, make expands $* ...

while this means "no version of make expands $* ...":

  No make expands $* ...

  sr> Not an option for me - I have to support 3.79.1.

Then your only way is to use the auto-re-exec trick.

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