Someone recently mentioned the target .c.o in Makefiles for cross compatability, but I fail to understand its purpose. Can anyone clarify?
Someone recently mentioned the target .c.o in Makefiles for cross compatability, but I fail
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Someone recently mentioned the target .c.o in Makefiles for cross compatability, but I fail to understand its purpose. Can anyone clarify?
It’s an old-fashioned suffix rule. The more up-to-date way to do it is to use a pattern rule: