>>> To make the makefile easier readable and at the same time avoiding >>> line noise, you can use a multi-variable .for loop, which are >>> available since 2000: >> Maybe. I'd have to see if that's present in all the make versions I >> care about. [...] > It won't be in 1.4T's make but it should be in everything else you're > likely to run into these days.
I no longer run 1.4T's make. I got fed up with it and backported the 5.2 make to 1.4T on 2018-08-10. It even works for the 1.4T build infrastructure, though it generates more noise messages than the 1.4T make did. Mouse