Re: Makefile doing strange things - help

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 00:38 -0800, Nirusha & Dushara Jayasinghe wrote:

> %.d: $(@:$(OBJ)/%.d=$(SRC)/%.c)

I don't know about the exact symptoms you're seeing but this rule is
wrong.  You cannot use $@ in a prerequisite list: that is an automatic
variable and automatic variables only have a value in the command
script, not in the prerequisites list.

See automatic variables in the GNU make manual.

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