access of dependencies of other targets

[Uwe Rathmann]

Hi,

Our project consists of many makefiles including a central makefile.template 
that contains a lot of rules that are common for all subprojects. For 
binaries each specific makefile has to written like this:

---
bins= mybin1 mybin2

include makefile.template

mybin1: x1.o x2.o x3.o
mybin2: y1.o y2.o
---

makefile.template contains a rule:

----
$(bins):
    $(CC) $^ $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) -o $@
---

Ok that works all fine. 

But next I like to write a second rule for producing a static version with 
the suffix ".static" for all binaries. To write a working rule I would need 
something like a function $(dependencies target). In my case I could use it 
like this:

%.static: %
    $(CC) $(dependencies $<) -static $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) -o $@

Does any function exist to get the dependencies of a different target, or is 
there a much better solution for me ?

Cheers,
Uwe