Re: help patter mathcing

[Maxim Yegorushkin]

Zunbeltz Izaola wrote:

> I have the following files
>
> foo-1.pdf foo-2.pdf whose prerequisite is foo.mp  and
> baz-1.pdf whose prerequisite is baz.mp
>
>
> They are generated with the command
>
> mptopdf foo.mp
>
>
> I what to wirte a pattern rule similar to
>
> %.pdf : something
>    mptopdf $<
>
> where someting tramsform names like foo-[0-9]*.pdf to foo.mp

Does this not do what you need? (you can specify dependencies without having to 
write commands)

$ cat Makefile
foo-1.pdf foo-2.pdf : foo.mp
baz-1.pdf : baz.mp

%.pdf :
        @echo "$@ <--- mptopdf $<"
$ touch {foo,baz}.mp
$ make {foo-{1,2},baz-1}.pdf
foo-1.pdf <--- mptopdf foo.mp
foo-2.pdf <--- mptopdf foo.mp
baz-1.pdf <--- mptopdf baz.mp