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Subject: gnumake 3.57
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Date: 24 Nov 89 09:49:36 GMT
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Wildcard characters and functions do not work in static pattern rules.

The following is an excerpt of a Makefile in a directory including
3 (say) man pages, pp.1, qq.2, rr.3, which should end up in
/usr/local/man/man{1,2,3}, respectively, when one of the destination
is out of date.  (Makefile is in the "source" directory, not the
destination one).


   MANDIR    = /usr/local/man
   PAGES     = pp.1 qq.2 rr.3
   DESTPAGES = $(foreach page, $(PAGES), $(MANDIR)/man$(suffix $(page))/$(page))

   $(DESTPAGES) : % : @(notdir %)
	install -c -g wheel -m 0644 $< $(MANDIR)/man$(suffix $<)

The static rule was meant to say /usr/local/man/man1/pp.1 depends on
pp.1 etc...  But the way % works, the stem is added on the right
hand side *after* the @notdir is invoked.

   I tried

   $(DESTPAGES) : $(MANDIR)/man?/% : %

but this does not work, either.  The only solution I found was to have
separate rules for each section, which is a drag.  Any suggestions?

Thanks!
Michael Fingerhut