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Subject: Re: Why make(1) doesn't support the internal macro $< ?
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On Apr 21, 2012, at 8:18 PM, Yuri wrote:

> When I run 'make' on the following makefile, $@ gets printed but $< =
doesn't.
>=20
> Why?
>=20
> Yuri
>=20
>=20
> --- Makefile ---
> file-out: file-in
>        @echo "target=3D" $@ " src=3D" $<; touch $@

	You want `$>`... .IMPSRC is something else=85
Cheers,
-Garrett=