> I know about that. And in fact I am use Wine for doing an native > compile. Nevertheless most users using msys for native windows. Btw > that it would work on cygwin is more theory,
It's not theory, it's what e.g. we do at AdaCore so it's very much reality rather than theory. > Sorry, here I am a bit curious. Maybe I am just unaware, but what have > the arguments of the LN_S call to do with the amount of entries in the > list, which are getting enumerated by foreach? The $f variable anyway > will contain just one filename, isn't it? Is such an foreach loop > unrolled before execution so that I have 'elements-in-foreach' * > 'size-of-executed-command'? Yes, GNU make 'foreach' will expand all the commands and concatenate them into a single command line. In other words, foreach is simply a text substition, unlike sh 'for' command. Arno
