From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Bug in Make? Completely incorrect behavior.
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:02:32 +0200
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, SpamKiLr wrote:

> I am once again having problems with GNU make. Now it says "***
> multiple target patterns. Stop." for a line that reads
> 
> $(DOCTARGETFILE): $(DOCSOURCEFILES)
> 
> where $(DOCTARGETFILE) is defined before this rule (or indeed any
> rules) and expands to
> 
> ../docs/allclasses-frame.html
> 
> This does not contain the pattern character '%' at all, let alone
> multiple times.

``Multiple target patterns'' doesn't refer to `%', it pertains to
another type of snafu.  But since you didn't post the Makefile, and
didn't even tell what DOCSOURCEFILES expands to, it is impossible to
know what is the problem.

> Please inform me immediately of a workaround for the
> bug I seem to have stumbled upon.

``Inform me immediately'' is hardly a nice way of asking for free
help, even with a ``please''.