Subject: Re: Implicit .SUFFIXES in make
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 05/23/2005 13:04:46
On Mon, 23 May 2005, Martin Husemann wrote:

> .SUFFIXES : $o .tbl .i
>
> (I'm not sure what the $o is about, maybe autoconf fall out)
>
> Adding a .h here fixes the build.

And that's the correct fix.  The makefile is broken wrt standards, but just
"happens to work" where a system supplied make did not properly follow the
standard.  (See the rest of the thread on netbsd-users; particularly that .h
is not a POSIX mandated entry in the .SUFFIXES list.)

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