From: Adam Spiers <adam@spiers.net>
To: zsh workers mailing list <zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: duplicate targets in Makefile rule
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 10:39:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000221103923.A11977@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E12Mpkr-00069S-00@crucigera.fysh.org>; from zefram@fysh.org on Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 10:07:49AM +0000
Zefram (zefram@fysh.org) wrote:
> Adam Spiers wrote:
> >> Not portable: $< does not portably exist
> >
> >*sigh* You learn something every day. Why is it not meaningful
> >though, out of curiosity?
>
> There may be many (or no) dependencies in an explicit rule, whereas $<
> is defined (for an implicit rule) to expand to the exactly one dependency.
I see. I've only ever used GNU make, so I'd unconsciously assumed
that what the info pages say would be true for most makes:
`$<'
The name of the first dependency. If the target got its commands
from an implicit rule, this will be the first dependency added by
the implicit rule (*note Implicit Rules::.).
prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-02-21 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-02-09 23:58 Adam Spiers
2000-02-10 9:57 ` Zefram
2000-02-10 13:37 ` Adam Spiers
2000-02-10 13:54 ` Andrej Borsenkow
2000-02-10 14:23 ` Adam Spiers
2000-02-10 14:31 ` Zefram
2000-02-10 15:36 ` PATCH: " Adam Spiers
2000-02-10 15:43 ` Zefram
2000-02-10 17:03 ` Adam Spiers
2000-02-10 17:11 ` Zefram
2000-02-21 2:12 ` Adam Spiers
2000-02-21 10:07 ` Zefram
2000-02-21 10:39 ` Adam Spiers [this message]
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