Tom Lane wrote:
> I was originally thinking of somehow migrating the executable build
> rules into a single pattern rule, but given the lack of any suffix on
> executable names it's not clear how to use a pattern rule for the
> purpose.
You can write a rule for that using
%: %.o
but...
> And the existing rules are diverse enough that it might be
> a real pain to construct such a pattern rule anyway.
...is the problem.
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Peter Eisentraut
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