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by leni536 3652 days ago
I hate implicit rules. Also the %: %.c implicit rule is especially idiotic, it causes to check this rule for every single file, so if you have hello.h, then it will search for hello.h.c too.
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Well, you either force people name their files correctly, or you make the computer do a little extra bookkeeping so that they don't have to. This is the silliest thing to hate about make that I've ever heard of.