Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Sep 2005, Roland Illig wrote:
> 
>>>Do you still need the block style when working with targets anyway? You
>>>can just use ".READONLY: VAR VAR2"  all the time.
>>
>>http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2005/08/25/0004.html
>>
>>Yes, I do. In that example I don't want to duplicate all the 
>>TOOLS_PLATFORM.* names just for making them read-only.
> 
> 
> It's easy to do that another way:
> 
> 	TOOLS_PLATFORM_PAIRS+= cat /bin/cat
> 	TOOLS_PLATFORM_PAIRS+= chgrp /usr/bin/chgrp
> 	TOOLS_PLATFORM_PAIRS+= chmod /bin/chmod
> 	# etc...
> 	.for i j in ${TOOLS_PLATFORM_PAIRS}
> 	TOOLS_PLATFORM.${i} ?= ${j}
> 	.READONLY: ${i}
> 	.endfor

Looks good at first sight, but not at second. You cannot have 
white-space in the tool names. Not even with quoting them.

Roland