a Make question

[jpn at teddy.UUCP]

In article <1596 at uwmacc.UUCP> jwp at uwmacc.UUCP (Jeffrey W Percival) writes:
>Here's a simple makefile:
>
>	DIRS = d1 d2 d3 d4 d5
>	depend: ; (for dir in $(DIRS); do (cd $dir; make depend); done)
>
>The problem with this is that 'make' is interpreting the $d as a null
>string,

To pass a '$' to a command, double it.  i.e. the command line should be:

	depend: ; (for dir in $(DIRS); do (cd $$dir; make depend); done)