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copied!<p>when using a makefile, I want the following to be possible: </p> <pre><code>make clean make Clean make CLean make CLEan make CLEAn make ... </code></pre> <p>and have all to do the same thing in my makefile.<br> (ie. I don't want make goals to be case sensitive)</p> <p>Sure, I could just write every possibly like this: </p> <pre><code>.PHONY clean Clean CLean CLEan CLEAn ... clean Clean CLean CLEan CLEAn ...: $(DELETE_STUFF) </code></pre> <p>but I think you can see why this is not desired..<br> I know that 'make' has a built in macro called: MAKECMDGOALS which will be equal to whatever you type after typing make. </p> <pre><code>for example, running 'make clean all backup' $(MAKECMDGOALS) = "clean all backup" </code></pre> <p>I tried to do this at the top of my makefile: </p> <pre><code>MAKECMDGOALS:= $(shell echo $(MAKECMDGOALS) | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]") </code></pre> <p>it does change the variable to all lowercase, but will still only call the rule for the target goal typed. </p> <p>I've even tried to override it like this: </p> <pre><code>override MAKECMDGOALS:= $(shell echo $(MAKECMDGOALS) | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]") </code></pre> <p>in hopes that will be done sooner, yet no success. </p> <p>I was going to make a target like this: </p> <pre><code>$(MAKECMDGOALS): MAKECMDGOALS:= $(shell echo $(MAKECMDGOALS) | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]") #BUT I CAN'T CALL OTHER TARGETS FROM THE SHELL </code></pre> <p>I know it's a silly detail to fuss over, but surely there has got to be a way right? </p>

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