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From: dan@systech.UUCP (Dan Gill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix
Subject: Re: Makefile for Compressed files (.o.Z)
Summary: escape the .
Message-ID: <4815@gumby.Altos.COM>
Date: 16 Apr 91 17:00:39 GMT
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In article <4807@gumby.Altos.COM>, clp@gumby.Altos.COM (Chuck L. Peterson) writes:
> >   the appropriate file when it is needed.  Let's limit the discussion
> >   to just .o files.
> >
> > It seems that one would want to define a rule to take *.o.Z files and
> >   make them into *.o files:
> >       .o.Z.o:
> >               uncompress $<
> >   but I think that the multiple '.'s in the rule confuses MAKE.  I
> Ever tried cake? There you can write something like:
> %.o.Z: %.o
>         uncompress %.o
> Joachim

I have found that if you want do this that you need to escape the
first `.', and then make is happy.  

Try this:

.SUFFIXES:
.SUFFIXES: .o\.Z .o

.o\.Z.o:
	uncompress $<

I have tried this on a sun3/60, and it works good.

Dan