Re: Should this makefile really hang make?

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 13:30 -0800, Bryan Ischo wrote:
> .SECONDEXPANSION:
> all: foo.a
> %.a: $$(@:%.a=%.o)

An infinite loop is bad, sure; I'll check that out.  But why don't you
just write:

        all: foo.a
        %.a: %.o

??? There's no need for secondary expansion here.

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