Re: mixed implicit rules problem

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

Thank you Paul - perfect hit!

> However, this cannot work.  See the GNU make Manual, section "Chains of
> Implicit Rules" in the chapter "Implicit Rules":
>      No single implicit rule can appear more than once in a chain.  This
>   means that `make' will not even consider such a ridiculous thing as
>   >...<
Indeed, adding 2 fresh rules like

li%.so:li%.so.$(SO)
        ln -snf $$(basename $<) $@

li%.so.$(SO):li%.so.$(VER)
        ln -snf $$(basename $<) $@

allowed make to find the chain right... but should not it be
parametrised, ie "implicit rule cannot appear more than X (X now is 1)
times in the chain"... and X (default 1) could be overridden in Makefile.
I think it would of some use... just my 0.1 cents

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