Re: Speeding up the bootstrap build - a quick hack.

[David Engster]

> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
>
>> This was surprisingly difficult to solve.  There appears to be no way in
>> make to set a variable depending on what the target is.
>
> target :: VARIABLE := "value"
> targ
> Sets VARIABLE to value only while executing target.
>
> I could not find the section in the make manual that says this, but it
> must be there somewhere - that's how I learned it :(.

It's called target-specific variables:

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Target_002dspecific.html

-David