Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 31866: /trunk/doc/ /trunk/doc/: Makefile.am

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

morriss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=31866
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> User: morriss
> Date: 2010/02/11 09:25 AM
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> Log:
>  Hmmm, suffix rules don't have dependencies, only prerequisites.

Can we use pattern rules:

http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/make/Pattern-Rules.html

in make files instead of old fashioned suffix rules:

http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/make/Suffix-Rules.html

?  Or are there still systems (that we support) that don't like pattern 
rules?