Ted Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi all,

Your post belongs to help-make, not bug-make.

>
> What is the proper way to insert commas into each word of a GNU Make
> variable?
>
> I want to change FOO something like this:
>
>      FOO := a b c d e
>      FOO := $(patsubst %,-Wl,-y,%_,$(FOO))
>
> to get
>
>      -Wl,-y,a_ -Wl,-y,b_ -Wl,-y,c_ -Wl,-y,d_ -Wl,-y,e_
>
> Somehow I need to comment the comma so that it is not interpreted as a
> MAKE function argument separator.

Use an indirection:

comma :=,

FOO := $(patsubst %,-Wl$(comma)-y$(comma)%_,$(FOO))

-boris




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