Re: gmake - how to generate variable assignments?

[John Graham-Cumming]

Ernest wrote:
> Say I have a variable with n words...
>
> FILES = foo1 foo2 foo3 ...
>
> And I want to be able to generate *global* variable assignments (which may 
> need to be used later in multiple targets) of the form:
>
> foo1_VAR = ${VALUES}
> foo2_VAR = ${VALUES}
> ...
>
> Is there a way to do this?  I've looked into $(eval) and "define", but they 
> appear to be limited to doing stuff inside a target's command list 
> only...not for generating willy-nilly makefile lines.

You can do this in GNU Make 3.80 using the $(eval) function.

    $(foreach V,$(FILES),$(eval $V_VAR = ${VALUES}))

This will set V to be the name of each variables in FILES in turn and 
then do $(eval $V_VAR = ${VALUES}) for each V.

John.