I'm using CPPUnit (http://cppunit.sourceforge.net/cppunit-wiki) to make
unit tests for each class in my C++ program. I can say "make test" to
have them all built and executed. The "testexec" target builds the unit
test executables without running them. I started with something like this:
TESTS=EndOfFile.t \
YetAnotherClass.t
test: testexec
./EndOfFile.t
./YetAnotherClass.t
testexec: $(TESTS)
(... commands to build the test executables)
I thought I'd be clever and use the shell "for" control construct to
execute all the tests that are named in $(TESTS) rather than listing
them explicitly. But it doesn't work because make sees the $ and
expands it before passing the command line to the shell:
test: testexec
for test in $(TESTS); do ./$test; done
gives me:
/bin/sh: ./est: No such file or directory
$t expands to "", leaving "est".
I've tried all manner of backslashes and quotes to try to get the string
"$test" passed literraly to the subshell that make executes, but always
Make eats it. The *must* be a way to do what I want. Is there?
References to The Fine Manual are fine.
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