Re: recursive make variables coming to POSIX

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Bruce Korb wrote on Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 08:36:16PM CET:
> On 12/07/10 01:54, Schwarz, Konrad wrote:
> > $(address@hidden) is a very useful, as it allows target-specific
> > flags.
> 
> For all targets whose name conforms to make macro name requirements.

Right.  But since period is allowed, only hyphen would be a problem in
practice.

> It would make $($(shell echo "$@" | tr '[:punct:]' _)_FLAGS)
> an interesting construct, but you get very far afield that way....

Well, $(shell ...) still is GNU make-specific, so that still won't work.

Cheers,
Ralf