Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all,
I'm reading the GNU Make book I cannot understand the following syntax from the book.

Code:

objects = foo.o bar.o

all : $(objects)
$(objects) : %.o : %.c
	$(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $< -o  $@

If I run:

Code:

make

, I get the output:

Code:

cc  -c foo.c
cc  -o foo   foo.o

I think I understand that line $(objects) : %.o : %.c produces line cc -c foo.c when the target is foo.o. This is because
$(objects) : %.o : %.c is converted into foo.o : foo.c right?

But I cannot see the process that produces the second line: cc -o foo foo.o.

any help would be much appreciated!