[bug #51306] Checking programming possibilities around “MAKECMDGOALS”

[Markus Elfring]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51306>

                 Summary: Checking programming possibilities around
“MAKECMDGOALS”
                 Project: make
            Submitted by: elfring
            Submitted on: Sat 24 Jun 2017 10:22:36 PM CEST
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Bug
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
       Component Version: 4.2.1
        Operating System: Any
           Fixed Release: None
           Triage Status: None

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Details:

The documentation contains the following information
<https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Goals.html#index-MAKECMDGOALS>:
“…
Make will set the special variable MAKECMDGOALS to the list of goals you
specified on the command line.
…”


I imagine that such a list can occasionally provide several elements. I would
find the presented example insufficient in this case because only a simple
string comparison is performed there.

* How should the specified goals be really checked in a safe way?
* Is another software extension needed for the make function library?




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