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Re:Why Use Make by sankl on Thursday February 28, 2013 @01:31AM (#5297408)
Target specific variables do this job:

    rule1 : FOO:=1
    rule1 :
        echo $(FOO)

    rule2 : FOO:=2
    rule2 :
        echo $(FOO)
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Re:Why Use Make by SomeCallMeTim on Friday March 01, 2013 @01:50PM (#5306121)
Interesting. Didn't know this trick.

Turns out it wouldn't work for the usage pattern I needed (my example was simplified -- typically the variable settings would all happen in another file, and they couldn't happen on a target line because there wouldn't be a single target to use, in addition to just being ugly for that use), but it's good to know.

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