From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: using `notdir' inside a loop in a makefile
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 20:53:53 +0200
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Jeff Williams wrote:
> 
> Would someone please explain why the following makefile fragment
> doesn't behave as expected?  Something about using `notdir' inside
> the `for' loop isn't working as desired.
> 
> subdirs = ./dir1/foo.1 ./dir2/bar.2
> test:
>         for k in $(subdirs) ; do \
>                 echo $$k ; \
>                 echo $(notdir $$k) ; \
>         done

There's no way this is going to work, because $(notdir) is a Make function,
while $$k is only expanded when the shell is run by Make.  So when Make comes
to expand $(notdir), it sees $$k as its argument, and that expands to itself
(since it has no leading directories).

You want to use `basename $$k` instead.