Re: simple pattern rules

[Payal]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 03:12:11PM +0200, Stephan Beal wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Greg Chicares <address@hidden>wrote:
> 
> > # How to build it (if necessary).
> > %.cdb : %.tcp
> >        tcprules $@ $*.tcp.tmp < $^
> >
> 
> A slight addendum to that: pattern rules will never be invoked
> "automatically" - there must be a named rule which refers to them. e.g. Make
> has lots of built-in pattern rules, but none of them will activate unless
> you actually name a file which resolves to one of the rules.

Can someone please explain the above in bit more detail? I am having a
hard time understanding anything about pattern rules. I am not a C coder
and the make reference manual talks in C mostly, making it difficult for
me to understand topics like,
archives
pattern rules
implicit rules


With warm regards,
-Payal
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