Change a make variable, and call another rule, from a recipe in same Makefile?

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Use a target-specific variable

There is one more special feature of target-specific variables: when you define a target-specific variable that variable value is also in effect for all prerequisites of this target, and all their prerequisites, etc. (unless those prerequisites override that variable with their own target-specific variable value).

TEXENGINE=pdflatex

pdflatex:
    echo the engine is $(TEXENGINE)

lualatex: TEXENGINE=lualatex
lualatex: pdflatex
    echo Here I want to call the pdflatex rule, to check $(TEXENGINE) there!

The output is:

$ make pdflatex
echo the engine is pdflatex
the engine is pdflatex
$ make lualatex
echo the engine is lualatex
the engine is lualatex
echo Here I want to call the pdflatex rule, to check lualatex there!
Here I want to call the pdflatex rule, to check lualatex there!

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