Re: Is there a way to work around the following oddity with % in GNU Make?

[Steve Simmons]

Andrew <arkoenig@gmail.com> wrote on 09/28/05 at 18:31:

>     %.exe: %.o
>         $(CC) -o $@ $^

> Subsequently in the same makefile, I would like to add lib.o as a
> dependency to every .exe file in this directory, which one would think
> I could do by saying

>     %.exe: lib.o

> This doesn't work because it overrides the previous rule.

Have you tried wildcard expansions?  If foo.exe exists and is older
than lib.o, this works as expected:

$(wildcard *.exe):      lib.o
        echo success