I want to disable builtin rules and variables as per passing the -r and -R options to GNU make, from inside the make file. Other solutions that allow me to do this implicitl
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Canceling-Rules
# Disable built-in rules and variables MAKEFLAGS += --no-builtin-rules MAKEFLAGS += --no-builtin-variables # Makefile begins main: main.c cc main.c -o main