Hello,

Kip Warner <k...@thevertigo.com> writes:

> Hey list,
>
> I'd like to transform the following variable in my Makefile.am from...
>
>     files_only = a.foo b.foo c.foo d.foo ...
>
> Into...
>
>     files_with_path = dir/a.foo dir/b.foo dir/c.foo dir/d.foo ...
>
> I'm aware of GNU Make's $addprefix magic. I'm also aware it's naughty
> to use where portability is a concern and a different implementation of
> make may be used behind Automake. I was wondering if anyone has come up
> with a recipe for scenarios like this?

Would something like this work for you?

  files_with_path = `for f in $(files_only); do echo "dir/$$f"; done`

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