Re: Make feature rq: Non-pattern rules with multi-target commands

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Philip Guenther <address@hidden> writes:

  pg> Yeah, this can be useful in some cases.  I remember doing this with
  pg> SunOS 4's make using the syntax

  pg> target1 + target2: dependencies
  pg>   command

  pg> but GNU make does not (currently) support that.

I don't like this syntax: it's confusing.  What does something like this
mean?

  target1 + target2 target3: prerequisites
        command

??  There are two obvious things it might mean, and I don't like either
of them :).


When GNU make gets this feature, I don't think it will use this syntax.
I was thinking something like adding a special delimiter:

  target1 target2 +: prerequisites
        command

or "|:" or something like that.

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