General rules of make

[Vibhor Kumar Agarwal]

Hi,

Make has some general rules and macros specified.

Can somebody help me to find out the location of that file.

[Biswajit Tripathy]

# man 1 make
- Biswajit

[Vibhor Kumar Agarwal]

Hey,

I know how to write makefiles.

In Solaris there is a general makefile.rules which contains predefined and inbuild rules.

I was just trying to search such a file in HP.
Till now i am unsuccessful.

[Stephen Keane]

Vibhor,

try

# make -p

which will list the built-in rules.

[Vibhor Kumar Agarwal]

Gotcha,

But somehow my rules are conflicting with it.
Sometimes it creates a problem.

Thats why i was trying to find the location so that i can change it.
With make -p i am only able to see them not change.

[Biswajit Tripathy · Accepted solution]

Vibhor wrote:
> Hey,
> I know how to write makefiles.

Sorry, I did not mean to say you don't. The
manpages for make has a section on
"Built-in Macros" and I thought that's what
you want.

- Biswajit

[Vibhor Kumar Agarwal]

Don't be,

I was just joking.

Thanks I got the location, and partially identified my problem.
Rest you can solve.

Does HP support rules like
%.o:%.cpp
This works in Solaris but on HP it tries to search for CC, it checked the general rules and it showed the compiler as CC.

Should I change it, but the problem is other form of rule
.o.cpp
works.

Any help