On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 01:16 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Justin,
>
> * Too, Justin A. wrote on Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:33:26PM CEST:
> > FOO=1 2
> > $(FOO:=bar) => 1bar 2bar.
> >
> > Is there a way to prepend bar?
>
> This is a GNU make question, or maybe a Posix make question, depending
> on what you target. In Posix make, the answer is no. With GNU make,
> you can use the patsubst function, see 'info make --index patsubst'.
If you have GNU make you can just write:
$(FOO:%=bar%)
which is shorter/simpler than using patsubst.
Cheers!
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