Hello, My understanding is that % is a stem pattern matching operation, meaning it requires at least one character for the pattern match (which makes sense if there is no suffix). However, I wanted to know if there is a way to pattern match with empty string given that there is a suffix.
An example is the following situation. In my filesystem, I have the following files at let's say the same level in my filesystem for now. dependencies.config linux_dependencies.config windows_dependencies.config where dependencies.config is a common configuration. Let's say I write the following Makefile target as an example. %dependencies.out: %dependencies.config # Recipe would be here to create the target from the config... I believe the above would capture 'linux_dependencies.config' and 'windows_dependencies.config' but not 'dependencies.config' since that would lead to an empty stem. I believe to capture both, a separate rule can be written for 'dependencies.config'. Not sure if there is a better way to handle this situation from the Makefile perspective. It would be interesting if there was some pattern match operator like %% that can do empty string captures for pattern matching given there is a non-empty suffix. Thanks -- Rahul Rameshbabu _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
