Iterating over lists in Makefiles?

Question

I find I\'m writing a lot of Makefiles that could be cleaned up with the use of n-tuple lists. But I can\'t find any way to do this properly (and cleanly). So far I

Answer 1

You're doing it backwards.

You're trying to treat make like it's a script. It's not, instead its a set of rules on how to create X given Y. Then the make engine figures out what needs to happen to get that result.

For the example given, you really should be using a script for the generation steps. Perhaps calling that from make, but let make handle the CC stuff.