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Re: Uppercasing files
- To: Emiliano <emile at iris-advies dot com>
- Subject: Re: Uppercasing files
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Date: 30 Jan 2001 21:28:01 -0700
- Cc: automake at gnu dot org
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- Reply-To: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Emile" == Emiliano <emile@iris-advies.com> writes:
Emile> I'm trying to create an automake file that has rules to
Emile> uppercase files. For example I have something.ext and I want
Emile> it to create a copy SOMETHING.EXT. I tried with this:
Emile> pkgdata_DATA = SOMETHING.EXT OTHER.EXT
Emile> CLEANFILES = $(pkgdata_DATA)
Emile> %.EXT : %.ext
Emile> cp -f $< `echo $< | tr a-z A-Z`
Emile> but that doesn't work since no file SOMETHING.ext exists. How
Emile> so I go about this?
Write explicit rules.
SOMETHING.EXT: something.ext
...
Tom