[CMake] passing arguments to the final make

[Andrea Crotti]

On 02/23/2012 06:20 AM, Michael Hertling wrote:
>
> The point is that ${SCRIPT} is substituted in the Makefile by
>
> (1) a macro specified on the command line
> (2) a macro specified in the Makefile
> (3) an environment variable
>
> in that order, or with (2) and (3) reversed if Make is invoked with the
> "-e" switch. When the Makefile's command lines are passed to the shell,
> the substitution has already taken place, so it should also work with
> the Windows command prompt. However, one needs a Make program, i.e. a
> parameterization of this kind probably doesn't work with non-Makefile
> generators. Even with Makefiles, there are subtle pitfalls: If a line
> "SCRIPT = ..." happens to appear somewhere in the Makefiles, invoking
> Make as "make SCRIPT=..." will overwrite it, most certainly resulting
> in surprising and undesired behaviour. Personally, I'd advise against
> using this method without explicit support by the Makefile generator.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
>
Yes well the problem is that it should work on Windows, and at least
with MinGW and with Gnu Makefiles.
I tried and I failed with this approach so I'll just drop the idea...

Also because typing

make do_this
./test.py

is not much different than "SCRIPT=test.py make do_this"