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Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: duplicate targets in Makefile rule
In-Reply-To: <20000221021201.A27957@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk> from Adam Spiers
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To: Adam Spiers <adam@spiers.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 10:07:49 +0000 (GMT)
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From: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>

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.

-zefram