I have seen documenation that says that inside a makefile $@
represents the target and $* represents the target minus any suffix.
On several machines, with both gnu make and Sun's make, $@  works as
specified, but $* is nil.

???

Simon

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On May 21, 6:54 pm, Simon <resmi...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have seen documenation that says that inside a makefile $@
> represents the target and $* represents the target minus any suffix.
> On several machines, with both gnu make and Sun's make, $@  works as
> specified, but $* is nil.
>
> ???
>
> Simon

I guess I found the answer in the gnu make online manual:

"If the target name in an explicit rule does not end with a recognized
suffix, `$*' is set to the empty string for that rule."

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From the title I assumed this must be about

sudo nice -1 make $*

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