Subject: Re: 1.11 doesn't add sources with nonstandard suffixes when making a binary

From: Юрий Пухальский <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:23:42 +0300

Good day, Ralf!

.pc.lo compiles but there is no tags rule being generated. With .pc.c
rule tags are ok.

So still there is a problem somewhere...

2011/1/11 Ralf Wildenhues <[email-masked]>:
> Hello Юрий,
>
> * Юрий Пухальский wrote on Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 03:48:08PM CET:
>> I've (finally) made it through two implicit rules, but i have a problem there.
>>
>> The makefile looks something like that:
>>
>> ------------------------
>> .SUFFIXES: .pc .lo .c
>> .pc.c:
>>       cp $< $@
>> .c.lo:
>>       cp $< $@
>> ------------------------
>>
>> Given that i have no .c and no .lo before invoking make, it works good
>> with gmake and aix make.
>> While on HP-UX it doesn't:
>
> Yep, that's because some non-GNU makes don't close suffix rules
> transitively.  You can either add explicit stub dependencies
>  foo.lo: foo.c
>  bar.lo: bar.c
>  ...
>
> or you can add a .pc.lo rule that contains the commands from both other
> rules.  Or require a decent make.  ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>

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