5 Sep
2006
5 Sep
'06
8:20 p.m.
From: piumarta@speakeasy.net [mailto:piumarta@speakeasy.net]
The automatic variables ($@, $< $*, etc.) are only valid within the rule(s) of an implicit template.
Everywhere I said 'rules' I really meant 'rules and associated commands', otherwise the allusion to Dave's solution makes little sense.
(BTW: my explanation holds for static patterns too, which I suspect might be what you're actually using, where '$*' is bound to the text make has inferred for '%' in the target pattern.)
Tchao, Ian