Re: creating multiple outputs with a tool in one step

[Maxim Yegorushkin]

On 08/02/10 09:01, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
> On 2010.02.06 19:53, Maxim Yegorushkin wrote:
> > On 25/01/10 08:59, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
> > > On 2010.01.24 16:04, James McElhannon wrote:
> > > > Suppose I have a file A that is dependent on B and C. I have a tool,
> > > > mytool, that can create B and C at one time from their respective
> > > > sources. When making A, I would want make to do "mytool B C" as one of
> > > > its steps.
> > >
> > > Sorry GNU make does not support this directly.
> >
> > It does. See example 3 on
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html.gz#Pattern-Examples
> Wow, I thing than know all, but not!

Yep, this is a feature that is often overlooked. It probably deserves 
more emphasis in the documentation.

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Max