Automagic Listing of targets,prereqs

[Tristan Van Berkom]

I was wondering if there is a way to list targets and
prerequisites in a way that the Nth element in list
1 depends on the Nth element in list 2.

If one were to write a dependancy like so:

$(TARGETS):$(PREREQUISISTES)

this means (mistaken am I ?) that every `single'
target in the former list depends on `all' 
the prereq's in the latter list.


I tried something like this:

$(foreach prereq, $(PREREQS),                   \
    $(foreach, target $(TARGETS),               \
        $(if $(findstring $(prereq), $(target)), \
            $(target):$(prereq))))

exept I cant figure out how to violently add newlines
instead of whitespace in between the elements of the 
above generated list (and even then, would they be
considered targets ? I guess so since the pre-proccessing
gets done before targets are considered).

My last resort I guess is to pipe that list through
`sed' for the newlines; into a file on disk... and
then include them in the makefile.

Is this not "beating aroud the bush" for such a simple
task ?

ThankYou in advance for any support ;-)

Cheers all,
        -Tristan

PS: I'm useing GNU Make 3.79