From: rdorgan@worldnet.att.net (Tom) Subject: Re: Do pattern rules work in NT? 21 Jul 1997 07:47:39 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <33D37195.60CB.cygnus.gnu-win32@worldnet.att.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Robert Nicholson wrote: > > Should the following pattern rule work in NT? > > classes\%.class: %.java > javac ...... > > if I have a dependency like classes/something.class > > won't it match this rule? > > The gnumake shipped with NeXT's OE 4.2 for NT doesn't seem to. I have seen some makes fail silently if the dependency is greater than one char in length (.o). I worked around this by linking the .class to .j or something and it started working. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".