Re: [AD] doc building patterns (was: Release Candidate 3)

[George Foot <gfoot@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 01:50:06AM +0100, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:
> That's exactly the sintax, but for all I tried it didn't work. Most
> importantly, I couldn't find out what where pmake's substitutes of $@
> and $<, so I could translate the basic operation block from...
> 
> path/%.txt: src/%._tx $(MAKEDOC)
>    $(MAKEDOC) -ascii $@ $<
> 
> ...to...
> 
> .txt._tx:
>    $(MAKEDOC) -ascii <output:put_something_here> <input:and_here>
> 
> Aparently such rules don't contain paths, which must be indicated
> with something else like VPATH, but that information eluded me too.

I got it to work with GNU Make, still using $< and $@.  There
are two things wrong with what you put, based on what I tested:

    1) you need .SUFFIXES: .txt  (or is it the ._tx that goes there?)

    2) it appears to only work for single-character extensions!

Pah.

George

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