Found it:

> Any target in the makefile may be specified as a goal (unless it starts with 
> ‘-’ or contains an ‘=’, in which case it will be parsed as a switch or 
> variable definition, respectively).
-- https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Goals

I make my living on exactly this kind of minutia, but IMHO, one parenthetical 
clause in the `make` manual is too little reason to flout the principle of 
least surprise.

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