Re: bug with multiple targets in pattern rules?

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Reich, Hannes" <address@hidden> writes:

  rh> I have a makefile which says (in essence):

  rh> %.foo %.bar :
  rh>         touch $@

  rh> Now, I can't find a specific reference to pattern rules with
  rh> multiple targets in the manual,

Look in the section "Introduction to Pattern Rules", the paragraph that
begins "Pattern rules may have more than one target..."

  rh> but it seems reasonable to me that this would be
  rh> the same thing as writing:

  rh> %.foo :
  rh>         touch $@
  rh> %.bar :
  rh>         touch $@

Nope, it's not.

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