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

From: Ralf Wildenhues <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:35:31 +0100

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