Refer to basename of current target (like with $* in MS NMake)

[Michael Ludwig]

In Microsoft NMake, you can use $* to refer to the current target's path
and basename:

EmployeeTest.exe: $*.obj Employee.obj
        $(CPP) $(CPPFLAGS) $** /Fe$@

($** in the recipe then refers to the list of dependents of the current
target. And CPP/CPPFLAGS in Nmake refer to the C++ compiler, not the C
preprocessor.)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cbes8ded.aspx

How can you refer to the current target't basename and path in GNU Make?

EmployeeTest.exe: EmployeeTest.o Employee.o
        $(LINK.cc) $^ -o $@
DatabaseTest.exe: DatabaseTest.o Employee.o Database.o
        $(LINK.cc) $^ -o $@

EmployeeTest and DatabaseTest are redundant here, how can you avoid
that redundancy in specifying the rule?

-- 
Michael Ludwig