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From: wolfgang@wsrcc.com (Wolfgang S. Rupprecht)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Make doesn't understand .SUFFIXES: .b .c .s .i .o
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.043546.26717@wsrcc.com>
Date: 6 Jun 91 04:35:46 GMT
References: <23182@shlump.lkg.dec.com>
Organization: Wolfgang S Rupprecht Computer Consulting, Washington DC.
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jc@netrix.nac.dec.com writes:
>	.SUFFIXES: .b .c .s .i .o
>	.b.c:   ;b-c 0-8t 9 <$*.b >$@
>	.c.o:   ;cc -c $(CFLAGS) $*.c

>If I tell it to make foo.c, it works, and then it knows  how  to  make
>foo.o  from  foo.c;  the problem is that it doesn't seem to understand
>the .b -> .c -> .o sequence

You never told it how to make a .b -> .o .

add this:

.b.o:   
	b-c 0-8t 9 <$*.b >$@
	cc -c $(CFLAGS) $*.c

-wolfgang
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