Dear Make experts,
Apologies if this question has a trivial answer. I promise I read the
manual! But I am a novice and not everything makes perfect sense.
I'm not writing C programs. I'm compiling a large number (many hundreds) of
pdf documents from text files, and I don't want to list the many targets
explicitly, because they are not fixed. I want to be able to type something
like: make foo.pdf, and make will look for an equivalent foo.txt. From the
manual section on pattern rules I thought a simple rule like the following
would work:
%.pdf: %.txt
$(COMMAND) $<
But I get an error saying there is "No rule to make target 'foo.pdf'". What
am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance,
Kevin Barry
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