[Omake] Re: Meaning of $*

[David Kågedal]

David Kågedal <david at virtutech.se> writes:

> Is there a reason why $* is defined differently in omake than in GNU
> make?
>
> In an implicit rule, $* expands to whatever % matched.
>
>     foo-%.o : bar-%.c
>         $(CC) -DBASE=% -c -o $@ $<

I guess what I meant here was -DBASE=$*

> In GNU Make, running "make foo-xxx.o" will run
>
>     cc -DBASE=xxx -c -o foo-xxx.o bar-xxx.c
>
> (provided that bar-xxx.c exists, of course).  But omake will run
>
>     cc -DBASE=foo-xxx -c -o foo-xxx.o bar-xxx.c
>
> since $* is defined to be the "target name without suffix".  I think
> this definition is less useful for implicit rules.

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David Kågedal, Virtutech