Re: unexpected behaviour with match anything rule

[Christof Warlich]

Am 15.11.2012 21:08, schrieb Britton Kerin:
> Match-everything rules are really prone to problems of this sort.  The -d
> flag will give you a big pile of output that will tell you whats going on
> if you can stand wading though it.
>
> Really its better to just not use implicit rules.  Compute the set of targets
> you want your rules to apply to with $(patsubst %.c,%.o,$(wildcard *.c))
> or so and use a static pattern rule.  It makes it easier to get the correct set
> of files, and make is more likely to give you a useful error message when
> things go wrong.
>
> Britton
Thanks for this advice, I will follow it wherever possible :-).

I nevertheless was hoping for some ideas on how to fix make's behaviour
w.r.t. match anything rules, which seems to me being rather buggy imho :-(.

Cheers,

Chris