Question

In Sun make, I can create a rule resembling the following:

${OBJECTS} : ${@F:%.o=%.c}
     (...) ${<}

… where ${@} in the dependency list is the same as ${@} in the rule portion of the target. That way, ${<} always evaluates to the right source file for the object being built.

This is somewhat like doing rules of the form:

%.o : %.c
     (...) ${<}

My question is: is there a way to do this with GNU make?

Answer 1

Yes.

%.o : %.c
    (...) $<

Or if you want to restrict the rule to ${OBJECTS}:

${OBJECTS} : %.o : %.c
    (...) $<