problem with make suffix rules

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <862 at massey.ac.nz> ARaman at massey.ac.nz (A.V. Raman) writes:
-In the att universe,
-make tries
-	cc -O program.c -o program
-instead of
-	cc -c program.c
-which is what the suffix rule tells it to do.

No, the built-in .c: rule is used, not the .c.o: then .o: rules that
your Makefile specified.  What you should probably do is to quit
trying to override the built-in rules and instead set CFLAGS=

-What's more, when I don't have a Makefile at all, and type
-`make program' (ucb)
-make doesn't apply the default suffix rule to run
-cc program.c -o program
-Instead, it comes up with the same message as before.

That's simply a difference in the behavior of the two versions of "make".