Re: Suffix Wildcard?

[Oleksandr Gavenko]

On 2012-10-30, Drew Hubl wrote:

> I've read up on the wildcard '%' character, and it seems as though it only
> matches non-empty strings, which works great for rules like:
>
> %.o:%.c
>     $(CC) $* -o $@
>
> but what I would like to do is match suffixes for targets, like:
>
> tb%:
>     vlog -nologo -work work tb$*.v
> [SKIP]
> Whenever I try to make the plain "tb" target, the command that gets run is
> a bit unexpected:
> vlog -nologo -work work tb.o.v
>
> When what I expected was:
> vlog -nologo -work work tb.v
>
> Is there a similar wildcard character that also matches empty strings, or
> can I turn off automatically inserting ".o" in place of the '%'?
>
Do you have tb.o or rules that make tb.o (for example from tb.c)??

May be Implicit Rules in effect. Try disable it if you do not replay on it (I
put this in all of my Makefiles in order to explicitly define all rules):

  SHELL = /bin/sh

  # Disable built in pattern rules.  <=======
  MAKEFLAGS += -r
  # Disable built in variables.
  MAKEFLAGS += -R
  # Disable built in suffix rules.
  .SUFFIXES:
  # Default target.
  .DEFAULT_GOAL = help

But seems you have bad naming schema for files (Makefile best work with unique
prefixes and suffixes, in case of %.o and prefix% you have both match of
prefix.o; rename files to %<prefix> or put them to separate directory to make
naming schema consistent).

Hope this help.

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Best regards!