Conor Daly <conor.daly_ilug at cod.homelinux.org> writes:
> I have a Makefile that installs manpages (among other things). Now, I
> know this is probably a terrible thing to do, the user should really work
> out how the program works by experimentation. However, I have a growing
> list of manpages and it's getting a bit tedious. I currently have lines
> of the form:
>> cp ../man3/csvtokenise.3 $(MANDIR)/man3/; \
Wildcards work in makefile variables.
manpages = ../man3/*.[123]
target: something
cp $(manpages) $(MANDIR)/man3/
or
manpages = page1.3 page2.3 pageX.3
target: something
cp ../man3/$(manpages) $(MANDIR)/man3/
Gnu make has all sorts of extensions that can make life easier, and
makefiles horrendously complicated. See for instance
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Foreach-Function
Brendan
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