Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2) 
Date:      Wed, 21 Mar 2001 22:59:23 -0800
From:      Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   make .PREFIX question
Message-ID:  <20010321225923.A64237@lizzy.bugworks.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help 
    /tmp% cat Makefile

    .SUFFIXES: .txt
    foo/bar.txt: a b
	@echo ${.TARGET}, ${.OODATE}, ${.ALLSRC}, ${.PREFIX}

    a b:
	echo $*

    /tmp% mkdir foo
    /tmp% touch b; make

gives

    foo/bar.txt, b, a b, foo/bar

instead of

    foo/bar.txt, b, a b, bar

even though man make(1) says

      .PREFIX   The file prefix of the file, containing only the file
                portion, no suffix or preceding directory components;
                also known as `*'.

What am I missing?

Thanks,
-- 
Jos Backus                 _/  _/_/_/        "Modularity is not a hack."
                          _/  _/   _/                -- D. J. Bernstein
                         _/  _/_/_/             
                    _/  _/  _/    _/
josb@cncdsl.com     _/_/   _/_/_/            use Std::Disclaimer;

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010321225923.A64237>