Hi,
I have several source files in a directory (which are different
versions of the same program), and I want gnu make to compile each of
them and name the resulting binaries according to the source name.

for example, if i write:

====Begin Makefile====
somefile: somefile.*.o
cc $? -o $@
====end of Makefile====

it will compile all my files but will of course only produce one
binary(somefile). I want it to produce a binary named somefile.* for
every somefile.*.c source file i have.

-Ido.

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* Ido Yehieli <Ido.Yehieli@gmail.com>
|     I have several source files in a directory (which are different
| versions of the same program), and I want gnu make to compile each of
| them and name the resulting binaries according to the source name.

% cat Makefile
all: somefile.*
% gmake all

HTH
R'

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On Jan 3, 3:32 pm, Ralf Fassel <ralf...@gmx.de> wrote:
> * Ido Yehieli <Ido.Yehi...@gmail.com>
> |     I have several source files in a directory (which are different
> | versions of the same program), and I want gnu make to compile each of
> | them and name the resulting binaries according to the source name.
>
>   % cat Makefile
>   all: somefile.*
>   % gmake all
>
> HTH
> R'

make: Nothing to be done for `all'.

-ido

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* Ido Yehieli <Ido.Yehieli@gmail.com>
| make: Nothing to be done for `all'.

Yup.  You need to have the executables already present for that recipe
to work :-/

Replace the recipe with

all: $(basename $(wildcard somefile.*.c))

This collects all somefile.*.c files, strips off the suffix and tries
to build the resulting targets (for .c, the corresponding rule is
built-in).

HTH
R'

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