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Subject: Why make(1) doesn't support the internal macro $< ?
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When I run 'make' on the following makefile, $@ gets printed but $< doesn't.

Why?

Yuri


--- Makefile ---
file-out: file-in
         @echo "target=" $@ " src=" $<; touch $@