a Make question

[Tim Radzykewycz]

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, so the 'cd' command sees an argument of "ir".  I tried
>escaping the $ preceding dir, to no avail.

To get a '$' char down to the shell that actually executes the
commands, simply double it:
	DIRS = d1 d2 d3 d4 d5
    depend: ; (for dir in $(DIRS); do (cd $$dir; make depend); done)
					  ^^
This prevents make from seeing it as a variable, and it does the
right thing.
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