Why GNU Make canned recipe doesn't work?

Question

I\'m expecting to see files foo1 and foo3 created by the makefile below. However only a file foo3 is created. To me it seems that the canned recip

Answer 1

I think you don't want the = at the end of the define line. This makefile works here for me:

define make-foo
echo making $@
touch $@
endef

.PHONY: foo1
foo1:
    $(make-foo)

Example:

$ make
echo making foo1
making foo1
touch foo1
$ ls
Makefile  foo1

The GNU make manual seems to indicate that the = should be just fine, but like you, I get different behaviour if I have it there.

Edit: I just asked:

GNU make differences in multiline variable declarations

To get some clarification on what's happening here...