126 GNU make
A single-suffix rule is defined by a single suffix, which is the source suffix. It matches
any file name, and the corresponding implicit prerequisite name is made by appending the
source suffix. A single-suffix rule whose source suffix is ‘.c’ is equivalent to the pattern rule
‘% : %.c’.
Suffix rule definitions are recognized by comparing each rule’s target against a defined
list of known suffixes. When make sees a rule whose target is a known suffix, this rule is
considered a single-suffix rule. When make sees a rule whose target is two known suffixes
concatenated, this rule is taken as a double-suffix rule.
For example, ‘.c’ and ‘.o’ are both on the default list of known suffixes. Therefore,
if you define a rule whose target is ‘.c.o’, make takes it to be a double-suffix rule with
source suffix ‘.c’ and target suffix ‘.o’. Here is the old-fashioned way to define the rule for
compiling a C source file:
.c.o:
$(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -o $@ $<
Suffix rules cannot have any prerequisites of their own. If they have any, they are treated
as normal files with funny names, not as suffix rules. Thus, the rule:
.c.o: foo.h
$(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -o $@ $<
tells how to make the file .c.o from the prerequisite file foo.h, and is not at all like the
pattern rule:
%.o: %.c foo.h
$(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -o $@ $<
which tells how to make ‘.o’ files from ‘.c’ files, and makes all ‘.o’ files using this pattern
rule also depend on foo.h.
Suffix rules with no recipe are also meaningless. They do not remove previous rules as
do pattern rules with no recipe (see Section 10.5.6 [Canceling Implicit Rules], page 124).
They simply enter the suffix or pair of suffixes concatenated as a target in the data base.
The known suffixes are simply the names of the prerequisites of the special target
.SUFFIXES. You can add your own suffixes by writing a rule for .SUFFIXES that adds
more prerequisites, as in:
.SUFFIXES: .hack .win
which adds ‘.hack’ and ‘.win’ to the end of the list of suffixes.
If you wish to eliminate the default known suffixes instead of just adding to them, write
a rule for .SUFFIXES with no prerequisites. By special dispensation, this eliminates all
existing prerequisites of .SUFFIXES. You can then write another rule to add the suffixes
you want. For example,
.SUFFIXES: # Delete the default suffixes
.SUFFIXES: .c .o .h # Define our suffix list
The ‘-r’ or ‘--no-builtin-rules’ flag causes the default list of suffixes to be empty.
The variable SUFFIXES is defined to the default list of suffixes before make reads any
makefiles. You can change the list of suffixes with a rule for the special target .SUFFIXES,
but that does not alter this variable.
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