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From: shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: SunOS make question
Message-ID: <26270001@hpclscu.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Nov 88 23:27:57 GMT
References: <5010@lynx.UUCP>
Organization: HP NSG/ISD California Language Lab
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> 
> .SUFFIXES: .u.o .t.o .s.o
> 
> and implied translation things that look like this:
> 
> .c.u.o:
>     $(uCC) -c $*.c
>     mv $*.o $*.u.o

Pretty close.

"ld" is not too picky about the suffix of its input files. Make, on the other
hand, often gets confused by stuff like the one above: it keys off the "."'s.

Try

  .SUFFIXES: .uo .to .so

  .c.uo:
      $(uCC) -c $*.c
      mv $*.o $*.uo
   
   ...

---
Shankar.