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From: woolsey@nsc.nsc.com (Jeff Woolsey)
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Subject: Re: Strange makefile construct
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Date: Tue, 8-Sep-87 19:13:29 EDT
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In article <1162@nrcvax.UUCP> chris@nrcvax.UUCP (Chris Grevstad) writes:
>This is the weirdness:
>
>target: file1.o file2.o file3.o file4.o
>	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(?:.o=.c)
>
>My interpretation says:
>	This:
>		$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(?:.o=.c)
>	becomes this:
>		$(CC) $(CFLAGS) file1.c file2.c file3.c file4.c
>

All I need now is something that turns

FILES = one two three four

into

	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) one.c two.c three.c four.c

and a default rule to go along with it.  I know about basename(1), but
it doesn't do what I want.
-- 
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