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From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: make bug
Summary: augmake
Message-ID: <987@vsi.COM>
Date: 2 Jan 89 05:03:03 GMT
References: <502@Aragorn.dde.uucp> <904@philmds.UUCP>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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In article <904@philmds.UUCP>, leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
> What would you expect? "$(BETA:bar=hello)" is certainly not Make syntax.
> Make doesn't know about sh or csh variable substitution, if that was
> your intention.

     New versions of make (augmake?) *do* allow this kind of
substitution.  You can do:

SRC	= $(OBJS:.o=.c)

and it effectively does 's/\.o/.c/g' on each word in ${OBJS}.

     It's very handy...
     Steve

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