How to get the invoking target of makefile?

Question

How to get the invoking target of the GNU make Makefile?

for example, I invoke make with the following command line:

make a-target

How can I get the invoking target "a-target" in the Makefile and assign it to a variable?

Further more, if more than one target is specified on the command line:

make target1 target2 ...

How do I get all of them?

score 82 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 19 '14 at 07:53

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The variable MAKECMDGOALS contains the list of targets that were specified on the command line, no matter how many (it's empty if there were none).

edited Feb 19 '14 at 07:53

Petr

answered Jul 08 '10 at 12:37

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score 20 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 08 '10 at 09:54

20

Maybe you need $@?

answered Jul 08 '10 at 09:54

Vlad

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$@ is the current target, not the target that was specified on the command line as in the original question. – user1683793 Aug 06 '18 at 22:38

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