Re: Problem with target specific variables

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Patrick West <address@hidden> writes:

  pw> I understand what is happening. PROG is set to $@, and $(PROG) is
  pw> expanded within the context of the target. So in prog1info, for
  pw> example, $@ is prog1info, so $(PROG) expands to prog1info.

Right.

  pw> The output I get is:
  pw> prog1info
  pw> prog1
  pw> prog2info
  pw> prog2

  pw> The output I would like to get is:
  pw> prog1
  pw> prog1
  pw> prog2
  pw> prog2

  pw> Any suggestions?

You can't do this using target-specific variables by themselves.  If you
get GNU make 3.80 you can use $(eval ...) to do it.

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