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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] build: delete the default .SUFFIXES
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Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

> All implicit rules in notmuch Makefiles are "pattern rules"; Deleting the
> default suffixes (to support obsolete, old-fashioned "suffix rules") from
> make reduces the output of 'make -d' by 40 to 90 percent, helping e.g.
> debugging make problems.

LGTM.

d