RE: Making multiple action lines from a varaible

[EXT-Pennington, Dale K]

Well, I tried the last option 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kristof Provost [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 1:25 PM
> A slightly different way might be:
> TARGETS := a.mak b.mak c.mak
> 
> CLEANTARGETS := $(addprefix phony-clean-, $(TARGETS)) 
> ALLTARGETS := $(addprefix phony-all-, $(TARGETS))
> 
> clean: $(CLEANTARGETS)
> all: $(ALLTARGETS)
> 
> phony-clean-%:
>     gmake -f $* clean
> 
> phony-all-%:
>     gmake -f $* all
> 
> .PHONY: $(CLEANTARGERS) $(ALLTARGETS)
> 
> It won't guarantee the order, but you can run it with -j N.
> 
> Kristof

And so far it does not appear to work. When I do a gmake clean, I get a
"nothing to be done for 'clean'. When I turn on debug to check
processing what I see is :

Considering target file 'phony-clean-a.mak'
  File 'phoney-clean-a.mak' does not exist
  Finished prerequisites of target file 'phony-clean-a.mak'
Must remake target 'phony-clean-a.mak'
Successfully remade target file 'phoney-clean-a.mak'

For all the .maks I added an echo Cleaning $* to the phony-clean-% rule
just to make sure I saw something.

I also ran a gmake -p clean. There I saw the following :

# Implicit Rules

phony-clean-%:
#  commands to execute (from 'makefile', line 42)
        @echo Cleaning $*
        gmake -f $* clean

... Later on

# Files

.PHONY: (includes the phony-clean-a.mak)

...

# Not a target
phony-clean-a.mak
#  Phony target (prerequisite of .PHONY)
#  Implicit rule search has not been done
#  File does not exist
#  File has been updated
#  Successfully updated

...

clean : (include phony-clean-a.mak)
#  Phony target (prerequisite of .PHONY)
#  Command-line target
#  Implicit rule search has not been done
#  File does not exist
#  File has been updated
#  Successfully updated

It is almost like the phony-clean-*.mak is hooking up with some
different rule in the rule database, but I did not find one that might
match.

FYI, I am still using gmake 3.80

Am I missing something obvious ?