bug involving .SUFFIXES ?

[Willem Vermin]

LS,

Using this Makefile:

#
.SUFFIXES::
.SUFFIXES:: .o

all:    foo.o

%.o:
        @echo value of '$$<' is $<
        @echo value of '$$@' is $@
#

I get as expected:

  value of $< is
  value of $@ is foo.o

However, when I replace the double colons (::) after .SUFFIXES in
single colons (:), I get this:

  value of $< is
  value of $@ is foo.o
  value of $< is
  value of $@ is all.o
  cc   all.o foo.o   -o all
  cc: all.o: No such file or directory
  cc: foo.o: No such file or directory
  cc: No input files
  make: *** [all] Error 1

Is this a bug, or am I missing something?

Regards,

Willem Vermin

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