Re: the relevance of suffix rules, given pattern rules

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Robert P. J. Day" <address@hidden> writes:

  rpjd> is there any value to defining your own suffix rules give that
  rpjd> pattern rules subsume suffix rules?

If you don't care about backward compatibility then there is no value.

I personally never use them in any of the makefiles I create that don't
need to be portable.  I tend to follow Paul's First Rule of Makefiles :).

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