Not the lest of a stupid question. Thanks for the question as a matter of fact :) I had gotten so used to this GCC environment, I forget I was not using GCC make. It's actually Clear Case make (ccmake, and omake)...whose makefiles look very similar to GCC make. Sorry to bother you guys with that. Nonetheless, it all worked out with the foreach construct. Yamin Quoting lrtaylor@xxxxxxxxxx: > This may be a bit of a stupid question, but are you sure that you're > using GNU make and that it's at least as recent as the documentation you > were reading? > > Lyle > > -----Original Message----- > From: y2bismil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:y2bismil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > Hey, > > Not sure what the %exec is for. Just following what's already in most > of the > make files. It just seems to execute what comes after it as if it were > a system > command and it displays the command itself. > > Yamin > > ---------------------------------------- This mail sent through www.mywaterloo.ca