[bug #22442] Old-style cancelation of implicit rules

[anonymous]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?22442>

                 Summary: Old-style cancelation of implicit rules
                 Project: make
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Friday 02/29/2008 at 01:09 UTC
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Bug
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
       Component Version: 3.81
        Operating System: POSIX-Based
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

I'd like to write portable makefiles that avoid the "%"
mechanism, but this leaves me no way of cancelling implicit
rules.  According to POSIX, it should be possible to cancel
a rule be writing something like

rule:  ;

But in gnu make version 3.81, this only results in changing
rule so that it does nothing.  For example if I want to 
control how C++ gets compiled and linked I define

.cc.o:
       My compile command

.o :
       My link command

But in the special case where there is only one .cc file
needed to make an executable the default ".cc" rule kicks
in and bypasses my commands.





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