Re: Applying properties to multiple items

Adriaan de Groot wrote:

> In a (child) recipe I write
>=20
> _top.INSTALL_DATA +=3D
> 	`childdir("vcal-conduit.desktop")` { installdir=3Dservices }
> 	`childdir("todo-conduit.desktop")` { installdir=3Dservices }
>=20
>=20
> This seems rather redundant; I'd like to write
>=20
> _top.INSTALL_DATA +=3D
> 	`childdir("vcal-conduit.desktop todo-conduit.desktop")`=20
> { installdir=3Dservices }
>=20
> since childdir() can take a list, but this applies the property {instal=
ldir}=20
> only to the last item returned by childdir. Why is that? Is there a way=
=20
> around this?

You can use RC style expansion:

	t =3D `childdir("vcal-conduit.desktop todo-conduit.desktop")`=20
	_top.INSTALL_DATA +=3D $*t { installdir=3Dservices }

See http://www.a-a-p.org/exec/ref-varscope.html#id2630956

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