My previous example is incomplete. Some examples of how to do pattern matches combined with wildcard expansions, although still probably not a good enough example set:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1633527/wildcard-targets-in-a-makefile You can also ask the gnu make mailing list--they are pretty quick to respond. On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Nicholas Leippe <n...@leippe.com> wrote: > https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Wildcards.html#Wildcards > > Says that it accepts the same wildcard characters as bash for expansion > inside targets and filenames, so > > [0-9]-[0-9][0-9].cfg: %m4 $(DEFFILES) .... should work > > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Jeff Jibson <j...@jibson.com> wrote: > >> I have a single source file, va.m4, and need to setup rules like: >> >> %s-ii.cfg : %m4 $(DEFFILES) >> <tab>$(M4) -I $(CURDIR) -D S=s -D I=ii < $< > $*s-ii.cfg >> >> >> where s is a single digit number, ii is a double digit number, the fist >> might be a leading 0 >> >> I can think of ways to do it with multiple rules, but not a single rule. >> Any suggestions? >> >> /* >> PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net >> Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug >> Don't fear the penguin. >> */ >> > > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
