RE: subst question

[Dave Korn]

On 26 January 2007 11:01, Brendan Heading wrote:

> All,
> 
> Another quick question. Does anyone know a way in GNU Make to filter off the
> first instance only of a given string.
> 
> For example, at the moment I'm doing
> 
> $(subst lib,,libfoo.a)
> 
> which gives me "foo.a". However if I do :
> 
> $(subst lib,,libbarlib.a)
> 
> this also gives me "bar.a" even though what I need is "barlib.a".
> 
> Any ideas ?

  How about

$(patsubst lib%,%,libbarlib.a)


    cheers,
      DaveK
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