Pattern matching a Makefile target name

Question

In a Makefile recipe, I can refer to the current target name by using '$@'.

Assuming you have:

%.foo:
  @echo "Blah!"

And you call that with:

make bar

'$@' would return 'bar.foo'. Is there a way to refer just to 'bar'?

Answer 1

Use $* to get the % part of the target:

%.foo:
    @echo $*