Re: Quoting shell command lines in Makefiles

["Michael D. Crawford" <crawford@goingware.com>]

Further Reading of The Fine Manual reveals that that way to quote $ in a 
makefile is to say "$$":

test: testexec
	for test in $(TESTS); do ./$$test ; done

> I'm using CPPUnit (http://cppunit.sourceforge.net/cppunit-wiki) to make
> unit tests for each class in my C++ program.  I can say "make test" to
> have them all built and executed. 
...
> I thought I'd be clever and use the shell "for" control construct to
> execute all the tests that are named in $(TESTS) rather than listing
> them explicitly.  But it doesn't work because make sees the $ and
> expands it before passing the command line to the shell:
>
> test: testexec
>         for test in $(TESTS); do ./$test; done

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