Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool: Suffix rules

| ## 4.4 Suffix rules To simplify a ``Makefile'`, there is a special kind of rule syntax known as a suffix rule. This is a wildcard pattern that can match targets. Our first ``Makefile'` used some. Here is one:
    .c.o:
    	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $< -o $@
Unless a more specific rule matches the target being sought, this rule will match any target that ends in ``.o'`. These files are said to always be dependent on ``.c'`. With some background material now presented, let's take a look at these tools in use.

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