Shell Programming and Scripting

How would I go about storing a list of files in a sub-directory into a variable for argument passing?

you can do ls | tr -s "\n" " " . A simple while loop can work well, can you elaborate more on how you are trying to use the variable

I have a makefile where I want to just compile every .c file in a sub directory and use the list to pass it to cc, but I found a builtin solution that works pretty good for make:

Code:

src=$(wildcard subdir/*.c)

Here it keeps the paths correct, just like I want it to.

Now I have a another problem if someone could help:
I have this rule:

Code:

$(objectsC) : $(srcC)
	echo "$(objectsC)"
	sleep 10
	for csrc in $(srcC); do \
		bn=$$(basename $$csrc); \
		fn=$${fn%.*}; \
		$(CC) -c $$csrc -o "$(build)/$$fn.o"; \
	done

Ignore the echo and sleep, they were investigation. This rule seems to loop. $(objectsC) only appears once as a dependency. Any idea why?

UPDATE: Well I think that make repeats a rule up to the amount of files specified by the rule if the target files aren't produced or if the commands in the rule fail. Am I correct on this?