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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