[Techtalk] Loop/wildcard-like syntax for GNU make?

[Conor Daly]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 05:51:10PM -0700 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Kelly Jones thought:
> Here's a Makefile that converts 3 GIFs to JPGs in a given directory:
> 
> 1.jpg: 1.gif
>       /usr/local/bin/convert 1.gif 1.jpg
> 2.jpg: 2.gif
>       /usr/local/bin/convert 2.gif 2.jpg
> 3.jpg: 3.gif
>       /usr/local/bin/convert 3.gif 3.jpg
> 
> How do I generalize this to apply to ALL the GIFs in a given
> directory? I tried:
> 
> *.jpg: *.gif
>       /usr/bin/local/bin/convert $1.gif $1.jpg
> 
> but this obviously doesn't work (I didn't really expect it to). Neither does
> 
> for $i (*.jpg) {
> $i.jpg: $i.gif
>        /usr/bin/local/bin/convert $i.gif $i.jpg
> }
> 
> (again, didn't really expect it to, since you can't put shell looping
> into a Makefile).

I have managed to put loops in my Makefiles.  It seems to be bash loop
syntax rather than C style syntax.  I'm not doing conversion like this but
just handling multiple man pages.  The install just copies all the man
pages to the target directory.


install:	$(Libname) $(LibSOname)
		cp ../man3/*.3 $(MANDIR)/man3/; 

But the uninstall must operate on a subset of the files in $(MANDIR) so I
have to use a list of files in my source tree to determine which files to
remove.  

uninstall:
		for FILE in ../man3/*.3; do \
			rm -f $(MANDIR)/man3/$$(basename "$$FILE"); \
		done; 

This works for a straight cp and should work with convert also:

all:
	for FILE in *.png; do \
		cp -f $$FILE $$(basename "$$FILE" png)jpg; \
	done;

Note the use of $$FILE rather than $FILE and the use of the 'png' arg to
basename which strips that bit off the end of $$FILE.

Conor
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