recursive make example (was: Re: executing a rule prior to any targets?)

[gk]

At 09:20 PM 10/20/2002 -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> %% gk <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   g> I re-read the section on recursive use of make but found nothing
>   g> there.  Could you point me to a particular section of the manual?
>
> Look in the section describing .PHONY: 'Phony Targets'.

Thanks, Paul.
The example there appears to have an error: I cannot find any definition 
for use of special variable '$'.
Manual says:
$(SUBDIRS):
        $(MAKE) -C $

Shouldn't it read:
$(SUBDIRS):
        $(MAKE) -C $@

- Greg Keraunen