Re: bug report

[Goran V.]

Maybe I was wrong to call this a bug but would a feature like that
break anything?

Am Mittwoch, den 03.03.2021, 13:55 -0500 schrieb Paul Smith:
> On Wed, 2021-03-03 at 17:31 +0100, Goran V. wrote:
> > $(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND)/%.html \
> > $(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND)/%.js   \
> > $(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND)/%.css  \
> > $(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND)/%.svg  \
> > $(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND)/%.ico:
> >         @echo -n "$(FRONTEND) - building $@"
> >         @$(MD) $(BUILD)/$(FRONTEND)
> >         @cp $(FRONTEND)/$(@F) $@
> >         @echo " ...done"
> 
> I think you're misunderstanding what a pattern rule with multiple
> targets means to GNU make.
> 
> See: 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Pattern-Intro.html
> (last paragraph).
> 
> It means that one invocation of the recipe will create ALL the
> targets.
>  That's why make believes it's already considered all the other
> targets
> that are listed as patterns here, even though it only ran the recipe
> one time.
> 
> Note this is the opposite of what an explicit rule with multiple
> targets means: that defines multiple unique rules, one for each
> target.
>