%% David Wuertele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Noel> What about the possibly-not-so-obvious use of $(foreach) and $(eval)?
dw> I tried $(foreach), but I was not able to make it generate a pattern.
dw> I was doing something like this:
dw> $(foreach program,$(PROGRAMS),$(program): $($(program)_OBJ))
That's because this evaluates to one long line. So, if PROGRAMS was
"foo bar" and foo_OBJ was foo.o and bar_OBJ was bar.o, this would
evaluate to, and be parsed by make as:
foo: foo.o bar: bar.o
You have to use eval.
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