Make 3.62 incorrectly expands $*

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1 total messages Started by Jason Merrill Sat, 10 Oct 1992 08:41

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Author: Jason Merrill
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 08:41

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In the finger-1.36 distribution, the makefiles in the lib subdir contain
the implicit rule

.c.o:
	$(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $(INCFLAGS) $(DEFS) $*.c

Even though the file matched is /gnu/finger-1.36/lib/error.c, for instance,
$*.c only expands to error.c, and gcc complains that it can't find error.c
in the current directory.  Replacing $*.c with $< fixes the problem.

According to the info pages, $* should expand to "the stem with which an
implicit rule matches".  Is this not "/gnu/finger-1.36/lib/error"?

--
Jason Merrill
jason@jarthur.claremont.edu

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