Need help coping files to a directory

Hello all.

I'm new to make and need some help.  My make file creates a
few files, 
(shared libraries and executables), and I want to write a
target that 
copies said files into a separate directory.  A pretty
simple need.  I 
gather that I could manually declare rules like:

somedir/foobar: foobar
    cp foobar somedir

somedir/dog: dog
    cp dog somedir

copythefiles: somedir/foobar somedir/dog

But I don't like repeating myself.  What I'd really like is
to have a 
rule pattern like:

somedir/%: $*
    cp $* somedir

copythefiles: somedir/foobar somedir/dog

This doesn't seem to work.  If I invoke "make
copythefiles" I also 
expect it to take appropriate actions to build foobar and
dog but this 
does not seem to be happening.

Am I going about this wrongly?  Help is much appreciated.
- Adam



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On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 16:22 -0700, Adam Bennett wrote:
> somedir/%: $*
>     cp $* somedir

somedir/%: %
    cp $* somedir

Read up on "Pattern Rules" in the GNU make
manual.

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Works like a charm   Thanks,
Paul.

Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 16:22 -0700, Adam Bennett wrote:
>   
>> somedir/%: $*
>>     cp $* somedir
>>     
>
> somedir/%: %
>     cp $* somedir
>
> Read up on "Pattern Rules" in the GNU make
manual.
>
>   




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