Re: Static pattern and $$(@F)

[Yogesh Bhagwat]

--- "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden> wrote:
> %% Yogesh Bhagwat <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>   yb> I was wondering if the issue regarding static pattern rule
>   yb> and $$(@F) as in System V make was ever resolved. Is there
>   yb> a way to achieve the same efffect in gnu make.
> 
> There is a way to achieve half of the effect, as described in the
> manual
> using static pattern rules.  But, static pattern rules are not a
> 100%
> replacement.
> 
>   yb> ${FILES_IN_DIR_A} : % : ${DIR_B}/$(notdir %)
>   yb>        do_something
> 
>   yb> does not work.
> 
> If all of your $(FILES_IN_DIR_A) are of the form $(DIR_A)/somefile,
> then
> you can use static pattern rules as follows:
> 
>   $(FILES_IN_DIR_A): $(DIR_A)/% : $(DIR_B)/%
>           do_something
> 

Unfortunately it is not so. FILES_IN_DIR_A should really be
FILES_IN_DIRS_A_TO_Z.

So this means I need to write static pattern rules for each of the
dirs. But that may not be possible as the dirs themselves are coming
out of a wildcard expression.


>   yb> I am using 3.79.1 version of gnu make.
> 
> The next version of GNU make (3.80) does support this strange SysV
> construct--at least to some extent.
> 
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