Passing arguments to "make run"

Question

I use Makefiles.

I have a target called run which runs the build target. Simplified, it looks like the following:

prog: ....   ...  run: prog   ./prog 

Is there any way to pass arguments? So that

make run asdf --> ./prog asdf make run the dog kicked the cat --> ./prog the dog kicked the cat 

Answer 1

I don't know a way to do what you want exactly, but a workaround might be:

run: ./prog     ./prog $(ARGS) 

Then:

make ARGS="asdf" run # or make run ARGS="asdf"