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	Green on Fri, 23 Jun 2000 23:56:28 +0100)
Subject: Re: Make file wildcards
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> From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 23:56:28 +0100
>
> > > This is expected behavior.  As written, the implicit rule you used
> > > is just another implicit rule, not unlike the one that Make already
> > > knows about.  When Make sees more than one implicit rule to build the
> > > same target, it chooses the first one, which will always be the one
> > > that's built into Make.
> 
> Do you really mean that?  I don't follow.  Normally if you redefine a
> rule it should overide the built in rule.

Implicit rule is not a rule, in the sense you mean above.

A Makefile can legitimately have several different implicit rules for
the same %.o pattern, and they are all valid.  Make will chose
whatever it sees fit out of them.