Re: Dependencies in makefile

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From: Erik Max Francis
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 15:37

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Alex Vinokur wrote:

> I am using GNU make.
> 
> Can I write in makefile dependencies as following :
> xxx.o : *.h
> instead of
> xxx.o: aaa.h bbb.h
> ?

GNU make has the wildcard builtin:

xxx.o: $(wildcard *.h)

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