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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Guilty party exonerated
Message-ID: <2904@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 18 Jul 89 20:44:59 GMT
Sender: ast@cs.vu.nl
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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I spoke too soon.  It is true that the new make does not expand $* the
way it used it.  I sort of assumed that it did it right in the old make and
wrong in the new one.  However, another possibility exists: it did it wrong
in the old one and right in the new one.

To quote Stu Feldman, "If the command was generated by an implicit rule
(see below), $< is the name of the related file that caused the action,
and $* is the prefix shared by the current and dependent file names."

Nothing is said about explicit rules, only implicit ones.  What do all you
'make' gurus think?

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)