Re: MAKEFLAGS=-r

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 2023-07-19 at 16:35 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> SUFFIXES does not seem to work too well. 'make -d' still shows all
> the extra noise. For example, I added to the top of my GNUmakefile:
> 
>    .SUFFIXES: .h .c .cpp .S .o

It works fine; you just didn't do what I said :).  I wrote:

>   .SUFFIXES:

which is very different than what you actually added.

You can read about how it works in the GNU Make manual:

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Suffix-Rules.html

Note in particular the last 3 paragraphs.