Re: help with loop in a Make file

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno mer 31 ago 2016 alle 8:57, David Kastrup <address@hidden> ha 
scritto:
> Federico Bruni <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >  I have a slightly OT question about Make.
> >  I'm using Make to generate several EPS file to be included in a
> >  LilyPond file.
> >  The three commands below work fine on the terminal but do not work
> >  when I launch make:
> >
> >  ### Make snippet ###
> >
> >  SHELL=/usr/bin/bash
> >
> >  %.pdf %.ps %.eps: %.tex
> >  latexmk -xelatex intervista.tex && \
> >  pdf-stapler split intervista.pdf && \
> >  for f in intervista_*.pdf; do pdf2ps $f; done
>
> Action lines _must_ start with a TAB character.

Yes, I know: TAB was on my file but I pasted without the TAB.


>   Also $f would be
> interpreted by Make (which has no clue about for loops), so you need 
> to
> escape the $ and write $$f instead.

That was the problem. Now it works.
Thanks!