Why make(1) doesn't support the internal macro $< ?

Mon Apr 23 18:47:17 UTC 2012

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On 22.04.2012 05:27, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Apr 21, 2012, at 8:18 PM, Yuri wrote:
> 
>> When I run 'make' on the following makefile, $@ gets printed but
>> $< doesn't.
> 
> You want `$>`... .IMPSRC is something else…

If the OP is used to GNU make, there's a difference:
    o  $> in our make evaluates to all prerequisites
    o  $< in GNU make evaluates to the first prerequisite only

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Jean-Sébastien Pédron
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