Re: working around "execvp: echo: Argument list too long"?

[Matthias Wenzel]

Hi Raleigh,

Rinehart, Raleigh wrote:
> What is it you need to do with each element?  
>
> I'm not seeing how $(foreach var,list,text) isn't what you need.
>
>
>   do_something := $(shell echo $(element))
>
>   $(foreach element,$(LARGE_VAR),$(do_something))

this does the trick. thanks.
although the syntax is slightly different:

all:
        $(-- $(foreach element,$(LARGE_VAR),$(shell command $(element)))

Matthias