Single-suffix rules

The make command has a set of single-suffix rules to build source files directly into a target file name that does not have a suffix (for example, command files).

Themake command also has rules to change the following source files with a suffix to object files without a suffix:

Command Description
.C: From a C++ language source file
.C\~: From an SCCS C++ language source file
.c: From a C language source file
.c~: From an SCCS C language source file
.sh: From a shell file
.sh~: From an SCCS shell file

For example, if all of the needed source files are in the current directory, to maintain the cat program, enter:

make cat