How can I make a target “private” in GNU make for internal use only? OR: how to best enforce target-specific variable-values?

Question

I have some ancillary targets in a makefile that I want to restrict for internal or \"private\" use (only) inside the makefile. That is, I want to be able to specify these targ

Answer 1

Thinking about this and tried the following:

TEST := $(shell echo $$RANDOM)

test : $(TEST)

$(TEST):
@echo tada $(TEST)

then doing a make test on command line seems to work and I think it would be difficult to get the result without using the test target. Maybe this path can help?