MAKECMDGOALS and spaces

[Christof Warlich]

Hi,

please consider this Maklefile:

$(MAKECMDGOALS):; echo "Goals: $(MAKECMDGOALS)"

For each goal being passed, it prints the list of all goals, e.g.:

$ make hi ho
echo "Goals: hi ho"
Goals: hi ho
echo "Goals: hi ho"
Goals: hi ho

But it fails when goals contain spaces:

$ make "hi ho"

make "hi ho"
make: *** No rule to make target 'hi ho'.  Stop.

Obviously, make knows that it is supposed to build a target with a
space, but this information got lost within the variable MAKECMDGOALS.
Can I fix my simple example to handle this case in a generic way?  As
much as I could figure so far, it seems to be impossible, right?

Thanks,

Chris