Re: multiple wildcards in a static pattern rule

[Noel Yap]

I'm not sure about your syntax.  I think you might mean:

$(ROOT)etc/dir1/%: %
        cp $< $@
        chmod 644 $@

and so on.

Anyway the way I'd go about this would be:

  $(foreach d,etc/dir1 etc/dir2 etc/dirN,$(eval $(ROOT)$(d)/%: % ; cp $< $@ && 
chmod 644 $@))

I haven't tested it, but it should at least be close to what I think you want.

HTH,
Noel
Ram Bhamidipaty wrote:
> 
> I have a series of rules like this in my Makefile:
> 
> $(ROOT)etc/dir1/%: $(ROOT)etc/dir1/%: %
>         cp $< $@
>         chmod 644 $@
> 
> $(ROOT)etc/dir2/%: $(ROOT)etc/dir2/%: %
>         cp $< $@
>         chmod 644 $@
> 
> ...
> 
> $(ROOT)etc/dirN/%: $(ROOT)etc/dirN/%: %
>         cp $< $@
>         chmod 644 $@
> 
> Is there a way to write all of these static pattern rules with one rule?
> 
> When I did a google search on this I saw that there was a patch submitted
> for that back in 1997, but there is no documentation in the make manuals
> that suggests that this feature has been incorporated into gnu make.
> 
> Thanks for any info?
> -Ram
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