On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Greg Chicares <address@hidden> wrote:
# How to build it (if necessary).
%.cdb : %.tcp
tcprules $@ $*.tcp.tmp < $^
A slight addendum to that: pattern rules will never be invoked "automatically" - there must be a named rule which refers to them. e.g. Make has lots of built-in pattern rules, but none of them will activate unless you actually name a file which resolves to one of the rules.