Re: Multiple targets with one command

[Noel Yap]

I'm not sure if the following will suit your needs.

Whenever I've had to deal with something like this (eg swig), I do something 
like:

file1: source.dtx source.ins

file2 file3: file1

HTH,
Noel

Martin Schröder wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I am generating source files from TeX documentation by using
> docstrip. This generates n files in one step. The obvious rule
> 
> file1 file2 file3 : source.dtx source.ins
>         latex source.ins
> 
> will execute the command once for each file -- while every
> executing of the command generates all files.
> 
> Patterns are not really a solution as the names of the source
> files don't depend on the target names; i.e. there would normally
> be no % on the right side of the rule. Older versions of gnu make
> (which I have to cope with) don't like this. :-{
> 
> Is there any technique to handle this with rules and not loose
> the listing of every file as a target?
> 
> Thanks in advance
>         Martin
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