On Friday 24 February 2006 12:07, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> What make's do and don't support static patterns?
> Is it a candidate for a configure check?

I have no idea, but again, it's not a big enough deal, unless there is also 
some make out there that supports static patterns and chokes on wildcard 
implicit rules -- unlikely.

The Right Way to solve this issue is probably to use m4's looping construct to 
generate a Make rule for every file. This gives the power of static patterns 
without Make support. That is not as easy as it sounds, however, because at 
present the list of manpages to build in a Make variable, not an m4 macro.

> > 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?

Unlikely. Again, this only applies to the man/ subdirectory, which has only 
about 2 dozen files in it. Wildcard implicit rules increase Make running time 
by the number of targets to build times the number of files in the directory 
-- since both are small for man/, it's not a problem.

--Ian
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