From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Mar 2 18:45:19 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03EBEAC2CE9 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 18:45:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexmiroslav@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vk0-x233.google.com (mail-vk0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c05::233]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B3ADA1D30 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 18:45:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexmiroslav@gmail.com) Received: by mail-vk0-x233.google.com with SMTP id e185so211141636vkb.1 for ; Wed, 02 Mar 2016 10:45:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to; bh=SGtzsWuS1nj5oJvjTG46MdvPTze2h3U8KdQGLkzdSyY=; b=hi79PPXfSn9jItGA8gFC7JmsEA+4HBA09pjFswZsMGJTmIJwaoR7jvffI4MPIumMPa U8xbSl+tZ5wiqXf22HYGzE27qihlzNO6N5RICkTGCgJraZxtK8I2lmal+UEvBW5LIhHp z2n1YyM0lM6rRePq5aZdC0wMP22e1i7xXmLitnyjP9voiU0OMrvGuVrCM9BbZfbyU9pk cNOF6qkJqcy04weoG2uerGRIegql4G2GmL6HI0kFqBvTlUkrCWlYDHJYHeaI8Ns9vgkd d+U7MzlNNgfkG+Lv2RfEPCshdZGYAWuQajdheKKBpkNeH7rSr8AQuQbwevnMAggxsaK7 izTw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to; bh=SGtzsWuS1nj5oJvjTG46MdvPTze2h3U8KdQGLkzdSyY=; b=ggNmcbitzYBaYvVxYwYdsbQd6hvig0A76vAhh3PlVISDskLQWur4BGTiT5HZFrYICL RgF/4SvMEcXjU/V8y7e/FEipilHVfuPx5o4ir4eyuUrlQtv+NQHiv4zOs0fE6AaAB+np nVTdRh14QgBpF/fw1P6oAXigh3SHeYtCUf7dBTEPXCh8hDmMIoa6dF8ZAUb//KwisIC4 6cQNHXYZj01Y2Ks4A8ae9oHomkibark2fNiGjvaTDRMDEiTbwcktiNc8A1aNflQtloHt aK8nBc2y3ipQcdD2lF5NF3n95kiysy/8j7oUds7tIwdlJO3BPj3hwK+gG75csncsQWKT N00g== X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJI6zhhDCUJC84VwKli7oYHObaa5o4GQF25XsYUWmoQg9UQhyb8y2cGnlXD6/P9XaGhUNot4HEhHlSRSOw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.31.135.79 with SMTP id j76mr18941419vkd.91.1456944317900; Wed, 02 Mar 2016 10:45:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.159.54.208 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 10:45:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 10:45:17 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: have BSD make pass all arguments to GNU make? From: Aleksandr Miroslav To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 18:45:19 -0000 GMail munged my highlighting . I meant bar $* and gmake $* in those two examples. On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Aleksandr Miroslav 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.) >