%% "Bob Byrnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
bb> This is because Make only interprets one pattern-specific variable
bb> assignment for each target.
This has been reported already and fixed in the GNU make source tree.
See bug #1405 in the GNU make Savannah project.
The fix will be available i
Put this in a Makefile:
foo.%bc: FIRST=first
foo.a%c: SECOND=second
foo.abc: THIRD=third
foo.abc: ; @echo $(FIRST) $(SECOND) $(THIRD)
Run "make". We believe that it *should* print "first second third",
but instead it prints "first third".
If you swap the order of the first and second l
