On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> David's beef is
> that the implied source is calculated differently when there are
> explicit dependencies, evidently being always the first source in that
> case, which is not intuitive.

Actually, that's not the case at all. Consider:

.SUFFIXES:
.SUFFIXES: .a .b

x.b: foo.a bar.a

.a.b:
	echo $<


Now "touch foo.a bar.a; make" gives

echo x.a
x.a

While with

.x.a: foo.a dir/x.a

it's the same as in David's example. So it looks like make is trying
to "do what I mean" with the "dir/".

Frederick