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From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
To: Ming Cheng <chengm349@hotmail.com>
Cc: gcc-help <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Fw: Makefile format
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 10:42:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH6eHdSkF4L-CcgHMCVUg4YEqXHSOxs=GhcVPD6DD6wcRdjahQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SI2PR03MB5242442233067D919743B94DFBB39@SI2PR03MB5242.apcprd03.prod.outlook.com>

On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 09:50, Ming Cheng via Gcc-help
<gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan Wakely,
>
> Thanks for your kind first step. I should have made my question more clearer.
>
> We have a module called abc. Amazingly user can just define abc_type, abc_target; and GNU make seems to me that  according to its rules will implicitly look for these bars if defined. Does the same doc have these rules description?

Yes, the GNU Make manual is detailed and complete, see
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Catalogue-of-Rules.html#Catalogue-of-Rules
This is off-topic for the gcc-help list though.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-21  9:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-20  4:57 Ming Cheng
2022-06-20  6:45 ` Jonathan Wakely
     [not found]   ` <SI2PR03MB5242F39C786CA8C53496F745FBB39@SI2PR03MB5242.apcprd03.prod.outlook.com>
2022-06-21  8:49     ` Fw: " Ming Cheng
2022-06-21  9:42       ` Jonathan Wakely [this message]
2022-06-21 11:55         ` Paul Smith
2022-06-22  3:12           ` Ming Cheng
2022-06-22 14:06             ` Paul Smith

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