On Thursday 23 February 2006 22:38, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> The actual complaint is often a big help to those answering.
>
> > $(man_MANS): %: $(MANPAGEDIR)/%.proc.xml xslt/man.xsl
> >         $(XSLTPROC) --path xslt/ --output $@ man.xsl $<
> >
> > Now, it's been a while since I wrote Makefiles, but I must admit that I
> > don't undrstand rh %: myself.

I have to confess that this is my doing. That line is a "static pattern", 
which is different from an implicit rule in that it applies only to the given 
targets (in this case, man_MANS). However, it would seem that your make does 
not support static patterns. 

Try the attached patch, and let me know what happens. Implicit rules hurt 
make's performance (especially global ones like this), but there are not many 
targets in that directory anyway, so it is probably not a problem.

--Ian
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