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Re: the relevance of suffix rules, given pattern rules
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Paul D. Smith |
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Re: the relevance of suffix rules, given pattern rules |
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Mon, 15 Dec 2003 08:24:08 -0500 |
%% "Robert P. J. Day" <address@hidden> writes:
rpjd> is there any value to defining your own suffix rules give that
rpjd> pattern rules subsume suffix rules?
If you don't care about backward compatibility then there is no value.
I personally never use them in any of the makefiles I create that don't
need to be portable. I tend to follow Paul's First Rule of Makefiles :).
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