Hello,

> I was wondering what version of make Netbsd uses. In particular the one I
> have on my Netbsd 1.5.1 system only appears to support .SUFFIX rules, as
> opposed to gmake which allows pattern matching in its implicit rules.
> 
> FWIW I am trying to get make to build to a different directory depending on
> the defines, something like:
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> DIR = some_directory
> OBJECTS = $(DIR)/main.o $(DIR)/t1.o ... $(DIR)/t50.o
> 
> $(DIR)/%.o : %.cpp
>   $(COMPILER) -c ...
> 
> TARGET: $(OBJECTS)
>   $(LINKER) ...
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Maybe something like this?

	DIR = some_directory
	OBJECTS = main.o t1.o ... t50.o

	# For BSD make
	.PATH: ${DIR}

	# For GNU make
	VPATH=". ${DIR}"

	%.o : %.cpp
		$(COMPILER) -c ...
	
	TARGET: $(OBJECTS)
		$(LINKER) ...

And if you don't mind being BSD specific, you could safe yourself some work
(such as standard compile + links rules) using bsd.*.mk framework.

	Regards,
		-- Jachym Holecek