Re: Compacting link-rules

[Edward Welbourne]

Paul Smith wrote:

>>> All the .obj files are missing!?
>>
>> Oh.  $@ is "bin/animation.exe" so $(@F) is "animation.exe" and
>> $($(@F)_OBJ) would be "animation.exe_OBJ" but that's not the name of
>> your variable, so it expands to the empty string.
>>
>> Sorry I didn't catch this problem in your original suggestion.
>>
>> You want:
>>
>>    bin/%.exe: $$($$*_OBJ) $(LIBS)
>>            ...
>>
>> because $* matches the pattern stem, which is "animation" in this case.

Gisle Vanem (18 October 2018 19:40) replied:
> That seems to work fine. Thanks a lot!

Good to hear.  For completeness's sake,
note another approach that might work:

TARGETS = bin/animation.exe bin/barchart.exe ...

$(TARGETS): bin/%.exe: $(%_OBJ) $(LIBS)
      $(call link_EXE, $@, $^)

using the other kind of pattern rule,

        Eddy.