Possible unintentional target invocation

[sio]

I think it should be noted somewhere in documentation that targets like "python-pip" may unintentionally trigger execution of other targets if their names match the command line arguments being used.

For example, let's add this rule to GNUmakefile:

ralc:
	touch $@

Now make python-pip search ralc will trigger both pip invocation and this rule. Using -- doesn't help either, the behavior remains exactly the same. That is the price of the clever hack (linked below): while there is a way to read $(MAKECMDGOALS) there is no way (afaik) to forbid execution of those ARGS as separate targets:

python.make/python.make

Line 118 in 59c89c3

python-pip: ARGS := $(filter-out python-pip,$(MAKECMDGOALS))

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Thanks for creating this project! I like the idea and I use somewhat similar Makefile in my projects :)

[jeffhung]

Hi @sio , thanks for raising this concern. I have got the idea to mitigate it. The mitigation method is not perfect - it still has drawback but at least have no side effect.