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On Mon, 6 Feb 2023 at 13:20, James E Keenan <jkeenan@pobox.com> wrote: > On 2/6/23 05:17, demerphq wrote: > > I recently discovered that `make` supports a lot of "precanned' > > recipes, like $(COMPILE.c) and similar. You can find a list if you do > > `make -p` in a directory with no makefile. Does anyone know why we > > don't use these? Are they not portable? > > > > cheers, > > Yves > > > > Appears to be gmake only. On FreeBSD, 'gmake -p' produces the kind of > list you were talking about, but 'make -p' just produces a Usage statement. > pmake on linux does that as well but when I made simple makefile just echoing $(COMPILE.c) I've got reasonable valueThread Previous | Thread Next