List goals/targets in GNU make

Question

I have a fairly large makefile that creates a number of targets on the fly by computing names from variables. (eg foo$(VAR) : $(PREREQS)). Is there any way that gnu make can be convinced to spit out a list of targets after it has expanded these variables?

I'd like to be able to get the targets for an aribitrary makefile. I'm trying to write a completion function for my shell.

Answer 1

Can you parse the output from make -pn (i.e. make --print-data-base --dry-run)? It prints out all the variables, rules, implicit rules and which commands will be run in laborious detail.