Re: How to add comma to a list?

[Ted Stern]

On 12 Jul 2005 at 10:14 UTC-0700, Ted Stern wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> What is the proper way to insert commas into each word of a GNU Make
> variable?
>
> I want to change FOO something like this:
>
>      FOO := a b c d e
>      FOO := $(patsubst %,-Wl,-y,%_,$(FOO))
>
> to get
>
>      -Wl,-y,a_ -Wl,-y,b_ -Wl,-y,c_ -Wl,-y,d_ -Wl,-y,e_
>
> Somehow I need to comment the comma so that it is not interpreted as a
> MAKE function argument separator.  I don't see any reference to this
> in the info pages.  I'm using 3.80.
>
> Thanks, Ted

Answering my own question:  I need to put the comma part into a
variable.

      PREFIX := -Wl,-y,
      FOO    := a b c d e
      FOO    := $(patsubst %,$(PREFIX)%_,$(FOO))

Sorry for the noise!

Ted
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