Paul Smith wrote: > Or, to test: > > all: > > .SUFFIXES: > %:: %,v > %:: RCS/%,v > %:: RCS/% > %:: s.% > %:: SCCS/s.%
Indeed, this works fine with the 'make' on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris 10, and AIX. > If we were to add something it would be a pseudo-target like: > > .NOBUILTINS: > > or something like that that would just turn off the entire built-in > database. Looks fine. Except possibly that POSIX does not allow this? Then we would need a pseudo-target the turns off only the non-standardized part of the built-in database, say, .NO_GNU_BUILTINS. And users would have to write: .SUFFIXES: .NO_GNU_BUILTINS: Bruno