Never mind, I just did it with a foreach loop...It's working now, but my question is still valid. It's just not urgent :) Quoting y2bismil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: > Hi all, > > I've got this weird problem using the addprefix function in GNU make. The > documentation makes it seem simple enough: > > $(addprefix prefix,names...) > > But when I try to do it, it always returns nothing. > For example, I have a file list declared as follows: > **************************************** > FileList := one.ob3 \ > two.ob3 \ > three.ob3 \ > > Then when I do get to my target > runTarget : > %exec echo $(FileList) > #This works fine and the first line is as expected. > #Now I try to add a prefix > %exec echo $(addprefix Pre, $(FileList) ) > #it prints an empty line. > **************************************** > Any ideas? > Or can anyone think of another easy way to prefix a list of files separated > by > white space? > > > Yamin > > > BTW...my previous problem was caused by the fact that compl was a c++ > keyword > Thanks Eljay > > ---------------------------------------- > This mail sent through www.mywaterloo.ca > ---------------------------------------- This mail sent through www.mywaterloo.ca
