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authorRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>1993-05-25 00:00:35 +0000
committerRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>1993-05-25 00:00:35 +0000
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@c For publication, format makebook.texi instead of using this file directly.
-@set EDITION 0.42
-@set VERSION 3.66 Beta
-@set UPDATED 14 May 1993
+@set EDITION 0.43
+@set VERSION 3.68 Beta
+@set UPDATED 24 May 1993
@set UPDATE-MONTH May 1993
@c finalout
@@ -7690,6 +7690,12 @@ with @samp{.a} as the target suffix. Any double-suffix rule
@w{@samp{.@var{x}.a}} is converted to a pattern rule with the target
pattern @samp{(%.o)} and a dependency pattern of @samp{%.@var{x}}.
+Since you might want to use @samp{.a} as the suffix for some other kind
+of file, @code{make} also converts archive suffix rules to pattern rules
+in the normal way (@pxref{Suffix Rules}). Thus a double-suffix rule
+@w{@samp{.@var{x}.a}} produces two pattern rules: @samp{@w{(%.o):}
+@w{%.@var{x}}} and @samp{@w{%.a}: @w{%.@var{x}}}.@refill
+
@node Features, Missing, Archives, Top
@chapter Features of GNU @code{make}
@cindex features of GNU @code{make}