Question

lets say I am doing mk “target” to build something. Is it possible to pass an argument to it?
i.e. mk “target” “x” and it will do things accordingly? I know that I will be providing mk “target” an argument and I know its semantics, just dont know the name well in advance.

Possible?

Answer 1

You might want to make use of GNU Make’s “Variables”:

$ cat Makefile

ifndef LOLCAKES
   LOLCAKES=1
endif

all:
   @echo $(LOLCAKES)

$ make all LOLCAKES=42

You didn’t explain what you’re trying to accomplish, so it’s hard to know what kind of “argument” you’re after.