Oddity with make and % macro

[Brian J. Murrell]

Given the Makefile:



doit%: .foo .bar-%
        echo "all done"

.foo: iptables
        touch $@

.bar-%: sysconfig-%
        touch $@



When I run "make doittest" I get the following output:

$ make doittest
touch .bar-test
echo "all done"
all done
rm .bar-test

I am wondering why the "rm .bar-test"?  There is no "rm .foo" so it
must have something to do with the % macro.

If this is not the right way, how can I achieve exactly as above
(flexibility with %) without the "rm .bar-%"?

Thanx,
b.

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Brian J. Murrell