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Re: PATCH: Re: duplicate targets in Makefile rule

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From: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxx>
To: Adam Spiers <adam@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: duplicate targets in Makefile rule
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 10:07:49 +0000 (GMT)
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In-reply-to: <20000221021201.A27957@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from Adam Spiers at "Feb 21, 2000 02:12:01 am"
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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

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