Using Foreach to Create Rules in GNU Make

TOOLS:=foo bar

.PHONY: all
all : $(TOOLS)

.PHONY: install $(addprefix install_,$(TOOLS))
install : $(addprefix install_,$(TOOLS))

.PHONY: uninstall $(addprefix uninstall_,$(TOOLS))
uninstall : $(addprefix uninstall_,$(TOOLS))

define TOOL_template
$(1): $$($(1)_OBJS)
        #commands to build it

install_$(1): $(1)
        install -c $(1) $$(prefix)/bin/$(1)

uninstall_$(1):
        rm $$(prefix)/bin/$(1)
endef

$(foreach tool,$(TOOLS),$(eval $(call TOOL_template,$(tool))))

The separate install and uninstall targets are a pattern needed so that parallel jobs function.

NOTE: the 'eval' can probably be removed as others on stack overflow suggest.