Re: help:what does it mean , the 10.8 chapter of the make manual , "If any rule in that list is not a match-anything rule, then remove all nonterminal match-anything rules from the list."

[Greg Chicares]

On 2006-11-13 16:18 UTC, ambrosehuang ambrose wrote:
>
>        I found it self-contradictory , when I read  "If any rule in that
> list is /not/ a match-anything rule, then remove all nonterminal
> match-anything rules from the list."

The way I would parse the first part of that sentence is:

  If the list contains at least one rule
  that is not a match-anything rule

You might be reading it as "if there is not any rule in
that list that is a match-anything rule", but that would
have a different meaning.

> ,the Chapter 10.8 of the make
> manual .Since there isn't any match-anything rule , how can
> I remove all the nonterminal match-anything rules ? I wonder how you
> understand these words , give me an example , if you have
> any .