Subject: Re: Q: What is wrong with "make" ?
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@deshaw.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/24/1997 21:22:25
On May 24, 10:17am, seebs@solon.com (Peter Seebach) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Q: What is wrong with "make" ?

| Is there a reason we don't support %'s in make rules?  This is one of
| the few makes I have access to which doesn't, and of course, this makes
| it hard to do some things in portable makefiles.

The reason is that the suffix module would have to be rewritten from scratch...

christos