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Re: mention converses
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Paul Smith |
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Re: mention converses |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:11:20 -0500 |
On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 16:19 +0800, address@hidden wrote:
> On (info "(make) Automatic Variables") you mention
> `$(@F)' is equivalent to `$(notdir $@)'.
>
> But on (info "(make) File Name Functions") you don't mention the
> converse!
>
> Nobody would have guessed there are shorter ways to write those things.
Only the automatic variables have special shorthand such as $(@F), etc.
$(notdir ...) works with any value, and so the documentation for that
function is generic and doesn't mention special cases that only work
with a limited number of variables.
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