Re: How to write rules for dependencies together with include?

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 13:20 +0100, Georg-Johann Lay wrote:
> In a make process I have to get verbatim copies (VPATH and vpath will 
> not work) from files in, say, $(FILES), which are located in $(DIR).
> 
> DIR is one directory and FILES is a list of plain file names with no 
> path prefixes.
> 
> So the rules to get the files should look like this:
> 
> foo1.a: $(DIR)/foo1.a
>       cp $^ .
> 
> foo2.b: $(DIR)/foo2.b
>       cp $^ .

Can you just use static pattern rules?

$(FILES): % : $(DIR)/%
        cp $< $@

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