Re: typo in the make manual

[ali hagigat]

In the example of 6.12, page 69,  what is the stem for lib/bar.o against
lib/%.o? it is bar i think.
and the stem against %.o is lib/bar.
The second stem is longer so why CFLAGS is not set to -g?


On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Paul Smith <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 07:40 +0430, ali hagigat wrote:
> > 6.12 Pattern-specific Variable Values
> > If a target matches more than one pattern, the matching
> > pattern-specific variables with
> > longer stems are interpreted first.
> > -------------------------------------------
> > The above words of the documentation seems to be corrected with
> > "shorter stems".
>
> No, the manual is correct.  The longer stems are preferred over shorter
> stems.
>
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