makefile GNU Pattern Rules Pattern Rules with multiple targets
Example
Pattern rules can have multiple targets but, unlike normal rules, the recipe is responsible for making all the targets. For example:
debug/%.o release/%.o: %.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) -c $< -o debug/$*.o
$(CC) $(CFLAGS_RELEASE) -c $< -o release/$*.o
Is a valid rule, which will build both debug and release objects when one of them has to be built. If we wrote something like:
debug/%.o release/%.o: %.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $< -o $@
It would work when only one of debug/*.o or release/*.o is built, but it would only build the first target (and consider the second one to be up-to-date) when both have to be built.
