Re: an angry rant about *BSD Make

[Humm]

Quoth Ingo Schwarze:
> Regarding your question how make(1) disambiguates:
>
>  .SUFFIXES: .me.in .me
>  .me.in.me:
>
> means "transform .me.in -> .me"
>
>  .SUFFIXES: .me .in.me
>  .me.in.me:
>
> means "transform .me -> .in.me"

How widely implemented is that?  As far as POSIX is concerned, the 
suffixes just aren’t allowed to contain periods themselves.

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Humm