On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 10:59:06PM -0500, Ian Turner wrote:
> 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. 
> 

What make's do and don't support static patterns?
Is it a candidate for a configure check?

> 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.

Is compilation time for amanda getting long enough such that make
performance need be a consideration?

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