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Date:      Wed, 2 Mar 2016 10:45:17 -0800
From:      Aleksandr Miroslav <alexmiroslav@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: have BSD make pass all arguments to GNU make?
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GMail munged my highlighting . I meant bar $* and gmake $* in those two
examples.



On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Aleksandr Miroslav <alexmiroslav@gmail.com>
wrote:

> In shell, if I call a script "foo", i can pass all the arguments to a
> script "bar" like this:
>
>
> *bar $**
>
> I would like to do something similar with make.
>
> If I call BSD make with some target, I'd like to rerun it on a
> GnuMakefile, something like this:
>
>
> *gmake $**
>
> Obviously this doesn't work because (I think) make doesn't have the notion
> of $*.
>
> But is something like this possible?
>
> (I'd rather not alias make to gmake, in case you were wondering, my system
> uses  both makes in various places.)
>



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