[bug #49262] Update match-anything rule documentation

[anonymous]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #49262 (project make):

I think this is covered in "10.5.5 Match-Anything Pattern Rules"

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   If you do not mark the match-anything rule as terminal, then it is
non-terminal.  A non-terminal match-anything rule cannot apply to a
file name that indicates a specific type of data.  A file name
indicates a specific type of data if some non-match-anything implicit
rule target matches it.

   For example, the file name `foo.c' matches the target for the pattern
rule `%.c : %.y' (the rule to run Yacc).  Regardless of whether this
rule is actually applicable (which happens only if there is a file
`foo.y'), the fact that its target matches is enough to prevent
consideration of any non-terminal match-anything rules for the file
`foo.c'.  Thus, `make' will not even consider trying to make `foo.c' as
an executable file from `foo.c.o', `foo.c.c', `foo.c.p', etc.
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