Re: Help with make rule

[Bob Bell]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 02:37:06PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> It doesn't work because it's not legal to create a pattern rule that
> doesn't have a recipe.  What you're trying to do is not create a pattern
> rule, but rather create some kind of pattern-matched prerequisite
> definition.  GNU make doesn't support that feature.
>
> In the GNU make manual you'll see that a pattern rule that has no recipe
> is defined to delete that rule.

Thank you for the very helpful response and explanation.

-- Bob