From 15f43615c5dd63c1c01edd505f9cf072d335c538 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremie Dimino Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 16:07:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add a note about % in user rules Related to #73 --- doc/manual.org | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/manual.org b/doc/manual.org index 4e938702..16a32a4d 100644 --- a/doc/manual.org +++ b/doc/manual.org @@ -504,6 +504,10 @@ only support user rules with targets in the current directory. == is the action to run to produce the targets from the dependencies. See the [[User actions][actions section]] for more details. +Note that contrary to makefiles or other build systems, user rules +currently don't support patterns, such as a rule to produce =%.y= from +=%.x= for any given =%=. This might be supported in the future. + **** ocamllex =(ocamllex ())= is essentially a shorthand for: