Re: On the fly expansion of make targets

[Ossama Othman]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:58:17PM -0800, Ossama Othman wrote:
> Is there any way to achieve the following portably?
> 
> source = test.foo              # assume it exists
> source_suffixes = bar baz
> targets = \
>   $(shell base=`echo $(source) | sed -e 's/\..*$$//'`; t= ; for p in 
> $(source_suffixes); do t="$$t $$base$$p"; done; echo $$t)
> 
> $(targets): $(source)
>         $(SOME_COMMAND) $?
> 
> The is to generate the following on-the-fly:
> 
> testbar testbaz: test.foo
>       $(SOME_COMMAND) $?

To be clear, I mean generate on-the-fly at make-time.

-Ossama
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