Re: Pattern rule prereqs are variables with % in them

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Boris Kolpackov <address@hidden> writes:

  bk> "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden> writes:
  >> In the second pass we still don't replace "%" the way you want BUT
  >> the automatic variables are available.

  bk> Actually we do.

Of course.  Doh!

  bk> all: /tmp/foo.x

  bk> foo_OBJS = foo.o bar.o

  bk> %.x: $$(%_OBJS)

  bk> The result of $$(%_OBJS) will be '/tmp/foo.o /tmp/bar.o'.

Eh?  Really?!?!  The path munging is applied to the CONTENTS of the
variable?  That seems pretty... strange...

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