Tonight on my mac osx10.4  make version 3.79
I trying a small example from the pages of the make manual, slightly
altered.

PROJ := a b c d e f g

.PHONY : all ${PROJ}

define A_template
$(1) : ; echo $@
endef

all : ${PROJ}

$(foreach proj,${PROJ},$(eval $(call A_template,${proj})))


All I get is
make : Nothing to be done for `all'

Is this something that will only work on 3.8 + ?

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billy wrote:

> PROJ := a b c d e f g
>
> .PHONY : all ${PROJ}
>
> define A_template
>   $(1) : ; echo $@
> endef
>
> all : ${PROJ}
>
> $(foreach proj,${PROJ},$(eval $(call A_template,${proj})))

Could you please explain what you are trying to do?

My guess from the above is that you are trying to generate a rule for
each word in ${PROJ}. If so, then it may be much simpler to do as
follows:

all	: ${PROJ}

${PROJ}	:
@echo $@

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