[bug #18305] target specific variables with conditional assignments

[Oliver Kiddle]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?18305>

                 Summary: target specific variables with conditional
assignments
                 Project: make
            Submitted by: opk
            Submitted on: Wednesday 11/15/2006 at 13:44
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Bug
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
       Component Version: 3.81
        Operating System: Any
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

If a target-specific conditional variable assignment is used, it
unconditionally overrides any inherited target-specific variable. Try the
following Makefile with and without the first line. The command is always run
with the argument 'two'.

all: TARGET = one
all: lib

lib: TARGET ?= two
lib:
        make -f second.mk $(TARGET)


The bug might arguably be that the target-specific variable is being
inherited at all though that's actually a useful feature for me. I can get
this Makefile to work as I want by using $(or $(TARGET),two).

Oliver






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