Re: Ordering targets as arguments

[Erik Rull]

Paul Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 23:59 +0100, Erik Rull wrote:
> > yeah, the last line was my solution, but I set it to:
> >
> > copy_object: $(filter copy_object,$(MAKECMDGOALS))
> >          [...]
>
> I'm pretty sure that's not what you used: that would be an infinite
> recursion and make would kick it out.
>
> Maybe you meant filter-out above, not filter?
>
> If so you should be careful; what about something like "make clean"?

Yeah, you're right :-)

Well some special constraints might cause an "interesting" behavior, but 
there are no automated calls for this makefile - so the users/programmers 
will select the targets during development when typing the make command.
And if there is nothing to copy just nothing will happen...

Best regards,

Erik