Re: [PATCH 3/4] Makefile: Replace old suffix rules with pattern rules

Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-16T16:35:05Z

> From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
> CC: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 11:08:07 -0500
>
> AFAIK, .SUFFIXES targets are only used for those rules, and can be
> removed as well.

AFAIK, .SUFFIXES affects built-in rules, and so having there only
suffixes relevant to our build will make the build faster, sometimes
much faster, because Make doesn't need to consider irrelevant built-in
rules.

When in doubt, we can ask the GNU Make maintainer to help us.