Follow-up Comment #2, bug #43757 (project make):
I must say I cannot agree with the analysis of the previous comment.
A target listed in a target-specific variable assignment is, at best,
*syntactically* a target, not semantically. Obviously, it cannot be
semantically because the variable assignment isn't a prerequisite, and doesn't
declare a rule. "Target" is the name for a semantic role of an object with
respect to an update rule, and possibly some prerequisites.
A target-specific variable assignment only scopes some variables around a
target, if that target happens to be updated.
It is buggy behavior to have some targets be considered permanent, just
because I want to customize their update recipe with some target-specific
variables.
The "mention" concept should depend on semantics, not syntax.
Of course, I read that line in the manual, but I wouldn't guess that an
assignment means "mentioned as a target".
Lastly, here is something else. Suppose I take a Makefile whose default target
is "all", and add this line at the very top:
foo: BAR := xyzzy
If I run "make" now with no arguments, it still says "nothing to be done for
`all'".
Clearly, Make is not considering foo to be "mentioned as a target", otherwise
it would have to consider foo to be the first target in the Makefile, and
hence the default target.
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