[radialbrain]

I can't say I share your love for make's built in rules. I find using them often just makes the build system harder to understand and debug. I usually disable all of the built in ones using:

  # Disable built in suffix rules
  .SUFFIXES:

  # Disable builtin pattern rules
  MAKEFLAGS+=-r

[exDM69]

> I can't say I share your love for make's built in rules.

Yes they can be a bit limiting, but even if you do not want to use built-in rules it's still a good idea to use generic rules using wildcards.

This is what lots of "Makefile tutorials" get wrong, they start by writing rules to build individual object files and targets.

Even if you want to write your own build rules, you should not need more than a few good rules for building and linking your object files.

[radialbrain]

Completely agree with you here - there should never be the need to hardcode file names in a makefile or repeat a rule multiple times - just use pattern rules.