Wildcard limited to partial match in a single path component?

[Maurice van der Pot]

I am trying to port a set of clearmake/SUN make makefiles for use with
GNU make. In these makefiles I have rules like this:

  .%XB.h : %XB.itm

For some reason it does not match a path/file like this:

  .dir/fileXB.h

If I change the target to either one of these then it will match:

  %XB.h       : %XB.itm
  .%/fileXB.h : %XB.itm

It looks like the wildcard can only have a partial match on one path
component or the rule will not match. Is that a bug or is it supposed
to work like this?

Regards,
Maurice.


P.S.: Obviously the prerequisite will be different with the two
alternatives. I tried using $(patsubst .%,%,%XB.itm) with the first
alternative to compensate, but the rule would not match anymore.

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Maurice van der Pot

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