Re: Match-Anything rule

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Michal Svec <address@hidden> writes:

  ms> % : /some/path/%
  ms>   cp $< $@

  ms> It is OK, but if I want to expand a file with a dir, it is not correctly
  ms> expanded, instead of: 
  ms>   foo/file: /some/path/foo/file
  ms> It expands to
  ms>   foo/file: /foo/some/path/file

  ms> Any comments? Is this a bug or a feature?

This is how patterns are documented to expand.  Check the GNU make
manual section "How Patterns Match".

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