Disable make builtin rules and variables from inside the make file

Disabling the built-in rules is done by writing an empty rule for .SUFFIXES:

.SUFFIXES:

Having erased the built-in rules, I’m not sure that erasing the built-in variables helps you much more than just remembering to set them yourself or not use them, but you could use something like

$(foreach V,
    $(shell make -p -f/dev/null 2>/dev/null | sed -n '/^[^:#= ]* *=/s/ .*//p'),
    $(if $(findstring default,$(origin $V)),$(eval $V=)))

…which is admittedly fairly crazy. If there is a way to get a list of the defined variables from within make (instead of shelling out to another make), it would be viable. As it is, it’s not really much better than

CC=
CXX=
# etc, for each likely built-in variable