Re: unwanted implicit rule

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Nicholas Charles Leippe <address@hidden> writes:

  ncl> %: %.o

  ncl> and it still does the same thing.  Should I look for another rule
  ncl> that is perhaps causing the match?

Something else must be going on.

I can't reproduce your problem, though; maybe you can provide an
example.

Here is the example I used:

  $ cat Makefile
  %.moc.cpp: %.h ; cp $< $@

  %.ui.h: %.ui ; cp $< $@

  %.ui.cpp: %.ui.h ; cp $< $@

  all: foo.ui.o foo.ui.moc.o

  $ touch foo.ui

  $ make
  make: Circular foo.ui <- foo.ui.o dependency dropped.
  cp foo.ui foo.ui.h
  cp foo.ui.h foo.ui.cpp
  g++    -c -o foo.ui.o foo.ui.cpp
  cp foo.ui.h foo.ui.moc.cpp
  g++    -c -o foo.ui.moc.o foo.ui.moc.cpp
  rm foo.ui.cpp foo.ui.h foo.ui.moc.cpp

As best as I can tell, this is what you want to do and works correctly.
This was GNU make 3.79.1.

I added the "%: %.o" rule, then I got a different circular dependency
message, building foo.ui from foo.ui.cpp.  So I added a "%: %.cpp" as
well, then I got no circular dependency messages.

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