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On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 7:13 PM, gene glick (geneglick AT optonline DOT net)
[via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> actually, in a simple Makefile, it works just fine as you guys have written.
> Something must be wrong with my larger version. Hmm..

It might be worth rewriting as a static pattern rule.  They're both less
failure-prone than implicit rules and give you much less misleading
diagnostics in some situations.

Britton