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12.1 $< in Ordinary Make Rules

Posix says that the ‘$<’ construct in makefiles can be used only in inference rules and in the ‘.DEFAULT’ rule; its meaning in ordinary rules is unspecified. Solaris make for instance replaces it with the empty string. OpenBSD (3.0 and later) make diagnoses these uses and errors out.