Re: [bug #51311] Checking search retries for implicit make rules

[SF Markus Elfring]

> At the risk of stating the obvious, note that there is a trivial
> work-around for this - there is nothing special about dot in patterns,
> so you could merge the dot into what % matches to make it non-empty:

It might be acceptable to give up a character from either end
of the prefix (or suffix) for my toy example.

Will the pattern match be a bit more flexible with this trick
than what was originally intended?


I imagine that direct support would be nice for a placeholder
which can be treated as optional in such an use case.

Regards,
Markus