> On 13 Mar 2017, at 02:02, LeJacq, Jean Pierre
> wrote:
>
> Tony Theodore wrote:
>
>> It seems the variable `prog` is in scope from the calling loop and
>> can be referenced in the template:
>>
>>define PROGRAM_template =
>> $(prog): $$($(prog)_OBJS) $$($(prog)_LIBS:%=-l%)
>> ALL
> On 13 Mar 2017, at 02:10, Paul Smith wrote:
>
> Yes, absolutely. The point of the foreach function is that the loop
> variable is visible in the scope of the loop body... otherwise foreach
> is almost useless.
Thanks, I just realised I don’t need to use `call` at all in the case
where the po
On Sun, 2017-03-12 at 11:02 -0400, LeJacq, Jean Pierre wrote:
> > I was wondering if this is defined behaviour and can be relied upon
> > to work in future versions of make?
>
> This is similar to a following bug:
>
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49841
I don't think these are the same.
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On Sun, 2017-03-12 at 18:15 +1100, Tony Theodore wrote:
> It seems the variable `prog` is in scope from the calling loop and
> can be referenced in the template:
>
> define PROGRAM_template =
> $(prog): $$($(prog)_OBJS) $$($(prog)_LIBS:%=-l%)
> ALL_OBJS += $$($(prog)_OBJS)
> e
Tony Theodore wrote:
> Looking at an example of a canned recipe in:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Eval-Function
>
> define PROGRAM_template =
> $(1): $$($(1)_OBJS) $$($(1)_LIBS:%=-l%)
> ALL_OBJS += $$($(1)_OBJS)
> endef
>
> $(foreach prog,$(PROGR
