Re: make claims foo cannot be built

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 13:02 +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> Can anyone explain why make claims that foo cannot be built with this
> Makefile please? Looking at the "Implicit Rule Search Algorithm" in
> the info page it looks to me like it should work fine.
> 
> ##############################
> default: foo
>         @echo default
> 
> f%: bar
>         @echo This is $@ with $*

If the file "bar" does not exist then you'll get the message you see
since there is no way for make to know how to build bar, and as a result
this implicit rule cannot match.

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