How to write loop in a Makefile?

Question

I want to execute the following commands:

./a.out 1
./a.out 2
./a.out 3
./a.out 4
.
.
. and so on

How to write this thing as a loop in a

Answer 1

Maybe you can use:

xxx:
    for i in `seq 1 4`; do ./a.out $$i; done;