How to generate targets in a Makefile by iterating over a list?

Question

CODE:

LIST=0 1 2 3 4 5
PREFIX=rambo

# some looping logic to interate over LIST

EXPECTED RESULT:

rambo0:
    sh rambo_script0.s         


        

Answer 1

Use text-transforming functions. With patsubst you can make quite general transformations. For constructing filenames, addsuffix and addprefix are both convenient.

For the rules, use pattern rules.

The overall result might look something like this:

LIST = 0 1 3 4 5
targets = $(addprefix rambo, $(LIST))

all: $(targets)

$(targets): rambo%: rambo%.sh
    sh $<