Have you read the Make pattern rules examples [0]? There's the specific example of yacc/bison doing something similar to as your describing (at least for 1:N c

Have you read the Make pattern rules examples [0]? There's the specific example of yacc/bison doing something similar to as your describing (at least for 1:N case). %.tab.c %.tab.h: %.y bison -d $< [0] http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/make/manual/html_node/Pattern-Examples.html#Pattern-Examples http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/make/manual/html_n...