Re: A newbie question

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Barry D Benowitz <address@hidden> writes:

  bdb> I have a variable with a list of subdirectories. I would like a
  bdb> rule to descend these subdirectories, then run make clean in each
  bdb> sub directory. Then I would like to do a make clean in the
  bdb> current directory; How can I do that?

# ---
SUBDIRS = foo bar biz baz boz

.PHONY: $(SUBDIRS)

clean: $(SUBDIRS)
        : do some cleaning in the current directory

$(SUBDIRS):
        $(MAKE) -C $@ clean
# ---


Note this will only work with GNU make.  If you can't rely on having GNU
make, you can still do it but it's harder and less functional.

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