Re: Automatically generate rules from a list variable

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 07:13:36PM +0300, Andrei Deftu wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Paul Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Why can't youjust use a normal pattern rule?  Something like:
> >
> >        %.cpp_o : %.cpp
> >                # bla bla
> >
> > ?
> 
> Thanks but this rule matches every .cpp_o files and I want it to match
> only the files from LIST.
> e.g.:
> 
> LIST1 := file1.cpp file2.cpp file3.cpp
> LIST2 := file4.cpp file5.cpp file6.cpp
> 
> and I want the files from LIST1 to be built using one rule and the
> ones from LIST2 using other rule. Then, your solution does not work.

So something like this:

$(LIST1): %.cpp_o: %.cpp
        # bla bla

$(LIST2): %.cpp_o: %.cpp
        # blaa blaa

Here you use your pattern rule but limited to the files
listed in the variables.

        Sam