Re: OR rules

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Daniel Mahler <address@hidden> writes:

  dm> I would like to be able to write parallel rules with disjunctive
  dm> semantics eg

  dm> %.tar : %.tar.Z
  dm>       unzip $<

  dm> %.tar : %.tar.gz
  dm>       gunzip $<

  dm> Which would only run gunzip if there was a .gz file 
  dm> and only unzip if there was a .Z file and either one
  dm> if both were present.

What you wrote here will do what you want.  Is there a reason you think
this doesn't work?

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