Hi Dmitry, On 2023-08-30 22:20, Dmitry Goncharov wrote: > On Tuesday, August 29, 2023, Alejandro Colomar <a...@kernel.org> wrote: > >> Hi Paul, >> >> On 2023-08-29 14:45, Paul Smith wrote: >>> On Tue, 2023-08-29 at 11:32 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >>>> Am I missing something? Is something like that allowed anyhow? >>> >>> Multiple "%" are allowed, in that they won't throw an error. But, only >>> the first "%" is replaced. The second (and subsequent) "%" are just >>> normal characters, not pattern matching. >> >> Thanks! That was my expectation before reading the docs. Maybe you >> could reword it to be explicit that only one % is used as a wildcard. > > > Good morning. > > The same paragraph says that after matching % the rest of the name must > match exactly. > However, be careful if you want to rely on this. We fixed it just recently. > 4.3 and earlier would replace all %,
I ended up using $(foreach ... $(eval ...)). I didn't know about $(eval) before reading Paul's troubleshooting guide, and it was mind opening. It solves a limitation I thought GNU Make had but really hadn't. :) Cheers, Alex -- <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> GPG key fingerprint: A9348594CE31283A826FBDD8D57633D441E25BB5
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