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Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 12:13:58 -0400
From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: 'BSD' make vs gmake on FBSD
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Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
> In libapreq2, FreeBSD users must use gmake mainly because of only 2 
> makefile rules like the following:
> 
> %.html: $(POD_DIR)/%.pm
> 
> What's the easiest way to duplicate this behavior under (F)BSD make ?

You could add .html and .pm to .SUFFIXES, and create a suffix rule which does 
whatever it takes to build the html from to pm files....

-- 
-Chuck