Percentage evaluation

  1. Set up a target like PRE.% where the % can be matched dynamically.
  2. Then call it using PRE.VALUE e.g. echo.deps.
  3. Use the value in the PRE.% target as $*.

Example:

cyan = "\\033[1\;96m"
off  = "\\033[0m"

echo.%:
	@echo "\n$(cyan)Building $*$(off)"

deps: echo.deps
	pip install --upgrade pip
	pip install -r requirements.txt

site: echo.site
	rm -rf site
	mkdir site
	mkdocs build

Variable name target

From edx/auth-backend.

MY_VAR=abc.txt
.PHONY: $(MY_VAR)
$(MY_VAR):
	# ...

e.g.

COMMON_CONSTRAINTS_TXT=requirements/common_constraints.txt
.PHONY: $(COMMON_CONSTRAINTS_TXT)
$(COMMON_CONSTRAINTS_TXT):
	wget -O "$(@)" https://raw.githubusercontent.com/edx/edx-lint/master/edx_lint/files/common_constraints.txt || touch "$(@)"

In this case it was followed by two upgrade targets.

upgrade: export CUSTOM_COMPILE_COMMAND=make upgrade
upgrade: $(COMMON_CONSTRAINTS_TXT)  ## update the requirements/*.txt files with the latest packages satisfying requirements/*.in