Re: make and addprefix

[y2bismil at engmail dot uwaterloo dot ca]

Never mind,

I just did it with a foreach loop...It's working now, but my question is still
valid.  It's just not urgent :)


Quoting y2bismil@engmail.uwaterloo.ca:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've got this weird problem using the addprefix function in GNU make.  The
> documentation makes it seem simple enough:
> 
> $(addprefix prefix,names...)
> 
> But when I try to do it, it always returns nothing.
> For example, I have a file list declared as follows:
> ****************************************
> FileList := one.ob3 \ 
>             two.ob3 \
>             three.ob3 \
> 
> Then when I do get to my target
> runTarget :
>     %exec echo $(FileList)
> #This works fine and the first line is as expected.
> #Now I try to add a prefix
>     %exec echo $(addprefix Pre, $(FileList) )
> #it prints an empty line.
> ****************************************
> Any ideas?
> Or can anyone think of another easy way to prefix a list of files separated
> by
> white space?
> 
> 
> Yamin
> 
> 
> BTW...my previous problem was caused by the fact that compl was a c++
> keyword
> Thanks Eljay
> 
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