[bug #59399] Add a warning about using $* and $< in explicit rules

[Jörg Schilling]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #59399 (project make):

I would love to see gmake to avoid unneeded and confusing output.

I however see tons of messages like 'entering directory..' and
similar. If you like to see these kind of messages, I would
expect that people need to use a related option to enable
them. For the typical usage, it is sufficient that a typical
make implementation prints the current working together with
error messages.

BTW: If you like a separate makefile linter, you could already
just call smake or SunPro Make to check whether a makefile
contains non-portable constructs. But it seems that typical gmake
users are not using other free make implementations to verify
their makefiles.

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