Re: [bug #51269] Reusing data from targets for prerequisites

[Edward Welbourne]

Markus Elfring (19 June 2017 19:34):
> The documentation contains the following information:
> “…
> It’s very important that you recognize the limited scope in which automatic
> variable values are available: they only have values within the recipe.
> …”
>
> How are the chances to adjust this software restriction?
>
> I would appreciate if parts from target names can also be occasionally reused
> for prerequisite specifications.
> Would it make sense to allow that another special syntax will denote
> additional placeholders (similar to the handling of the percent character)?

Take a look at
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Static-Usage.html

It may enable what you want already.  Otherwise, give a specific example
of what it is you can't do with the existing syntax.

        Eddy.