a Make question

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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.  Can anybody make the
>above loop work, or suggest a better way?  Thanks!

Try:
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	DIRS =		d1 d2 d3 d4 d5

	depend:		$(DIRS)

	$(DIRS):	FRC
			cd $@; make depend

	FRC:

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-Fred