Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 10:20:00 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Jason Green wrote:

> Ok, slight technicality. ;-) This rule:
> 
> %.o : %.c %.cpp %.h
> 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $<
> 
> will produce test.o given test.c *and* test.cpp *and* test.h
> 
> Since test.c does not exist, make prefers the built-in rule:
> 
> %.o: %.cpp
>         $(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -c -o $@ $<

That is true, but it is irrelevant to the point I wanted to make: that
implicit rules do not *override* one another.  Instead, Make remembers
them all and will use the first one it sees fit.