Re: MAKECMDGOALS and spaces

[Christof Warlich]

Kaz Kylheku wrote:

> I think to make use of this, you need to define a target that has
> a space. It seems this is possible as follows
>
>
>   hi\ ho:
>   [tab]echo yes
>
> Then make "hi ho" runs the recipe and "yes" is echoed.
>
> In order to do this with a generated rule from $(MAKECMDGOALS),
> you would need some way to do the expansion such that the
> spaces are similarly escaped.
The problem is that replacing every space with an escaped space only
works as long as MAKECMDGOALS consists of one goal only: If more goals
are given on the command line, their separating space would be replaced
as well, as the distinction between target separating spaces and
in-target spaces obviously get lost in MAKECMDGOALS.

Thus, I'm pretty sure that there is no generic way to do what I was
asking for, but I just want to double-check in case I'm missing something.