Re: pattern matching - variable setting

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 15:47 +0900, Aditya Kher wrote:
> case_%:CASE_DIR= /somewhere/case_%
> 
> case_%:
>       @echo "The case directory is ${CASE_DIR}"

pattern-specific variables don't work like that: they don't have pattern
replacement capability.

Why don't you just say:

CASE_DIR = /somewhere/case_$*

case_%:
        @echo "The case directory is ${CASE_DIR}"

?  The $* variable matches the pattern, and since you use "=" instead of
":=" the right-hand side is not evaluated until it's used inside the
recipe.

See the GNU make manual for details on these.

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