The discussion so far has been based on the idea that the user is expressing
an order on the command line and will be surprised if that order is not
followed. That definitely makes sense, and I was quite shocked to discover
this problem. ("make -j clean all" does /what/?!)
But when I ran into this
Forgive me for reviving this 2 year old thread, especially because there's no
make bug in sight, but this is the only place I've found this issue
discussed, so I wanted to make a couple comments and then ask a question:
Philip Guenther-2 wrote
> I think I would use a test on $(MAKECMDGOALS) to ma
