checking syntax on multiple files

I'm using a Makefile to install multiple perl scripts. Before the scripts get installed I want to do a perl -c on them.

So my Makefile looks something like:

install: foo bar
    perl -c $^
    $(INSTALL) $^ /usr/local/bin
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Unfortunately the output indicates that it only checked foo and not bar.

Is there some way to make perl check all the files given to it or do I need to come up with some other way to do this in the Makefile?

Thanks in advance

Edit: Thanks to blue_cowdawg and Anon Monk for coming up with this solution:

install: foo bar
    for pl in $^; do perl -c -Mstrict $$pl || exit 1; done
    $(INSTALL) $^ /usr/local/bin
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Re: checking syntax on multiple files by blue_cowdawg (Prior) on Jan 09, 2013 at 19:44 UTC
`$ cat Makefile all: doit.pl doit2.pl for pl in $^ ;\ do \ perl -c $$pl ;\ done` [download] Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: checking syntax on multiple files by xorl (Chaplain) on Jan 09, 2013 at 20:01 UTC
Thanks, but it isn't quite right. if doit.pl has a problem but doit2.pl is ok, it doesn't stop the install Using the filenames from my question. Foo has a syntax error while bar is a ok. This proceeds to install the files when I want to prevent that: `install: foo bar for pl in $^; do perl -c -Mstrict $$pl; done $(INSTALL) $^ /home/ltharris/tests/makestuf /installdir` [download] Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: checking syntax on multiple files by Anonymous Monk on Jan 09, 2013 at 21:41 UTC
Make only cares about the exit status of the shell; the shell eats them in the for loop. Try `perl -c -Mstrict $$pl \|\| exit 1` (I'm not a make wizard but I might try to create a "perl -c" target for each of the files in question. Well, a transformation rule perhaps. No idea on how to achieve that...)	[reply] [d/l]
Re: checking syntax on multiple files by tobyink (Prior) on Jan 10, 2013 at 09:02 UTC
Save this tiny script as `perl-checkall`... `#!/usr/bin/env perl for (@ARGV) { die "Not oll korrect!\n" if system $^X, '-c', $_; } exit(0);` [download] Now, in `Makefile`... `install: foo bar perl-checkall $^ $(INSTALL) $^ /usr/local/bin` [download] `perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'`	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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