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Re: are target-local variables for pattern rules well defined and suppor
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Paul Smith |
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Re: are target-local variables for pattern rules well defined and supported? |
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Sat, 06 May 2017 20:51:29 -0400 |
On Sat, 2017-05-06 at 16:08 -0800, Britton Kerin wrote:
> This seems to work:
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> %.o: COMPILE = cp
> %.o: %.c
> $(COMPILE) $< $@
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> but it makes me a little nervous. The manual doesn't seem to mention
> it in either the section on target-local variables or the one on
> pattern rules. Is this well defined and intentionally supported
> behavior?
Pattern-specific variables are described here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Pattern_002dspecific.html
which is the section directly after target-specific variables.