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Handling new file extensions
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   It is sometimes useful to introduce a new implicit rule to handle a
file type that Automake does not know about.  If this is done, you must
notify GNU Make of the new suffixes.  This can be done by putting a list
of new suffixes in the `SUFFIXES' variable.

   For instance, currently Automake does not provide any Java support.
If you wrote a macro to generate `.class' files from `.java' source
files, you would also need to add these suffixes to the list:

     SUFFIXES = .java .class