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Brendan Heading wrote:
> Another quick question. Does anyone know a way in GNU Make to filter off
> the first instance only of a given string.
> For example, at the moment I'm doing
> $(subst lib,,libfoo.a)
> which gives me "foo.a". However if I do :
> $(subst lib,,libbarlib.a)
> this also gives me "bar.a" even though what I need is "barlib.a".

Use patsubst: $(patsubst lib%,%,libbarlib.a) will give the result you
are looking for.

John.

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