Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/07/13/13:22:04
Thanks, guys. I'll try this when I get a chance to reinstall 3.81, and
report back. At the moment I''ve reverted to 3.80, and have a deadline
approaching...you know how it is :)
On 7/13/06, Dave Korn <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com> wrote:
> On 13 July 2006 01:47, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:32:04PM -0700, Jim Lawson wrote:
> >>>> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:15:27 -0400
> >>> From: "Aslam Karachiwala" <akwala AT gmail>
>
> >>> The error -- target pattern contains no `%' --
> >>> occurs at a target
> >>> such as the following:
> >>>
> >>> releaseproducts :: $(RELEASEDIR)/$(BINIMAGE)
> >>
> >> I think you'll find that this is due to the dropping of support for
> >> Windows paths in the new (3.81) version of make. I suspect
> >> $(RELEASEDIR) has a ':' in it somewhere.
> >>
> >> Try something like this:
> >>
> >> RELEASEDIR:=$(shell cygpath -u $(RELEASEDIR))
> >
> > That is an inspired guess which never would have occurred to me. I'll
> > bet you're right, though. That may even become a FAQ at some point.
> >
> > If this isn't the case then we'll (obviously?) need to see more of
> > the makefile than the one failing line.
>
>
> It's absolutely the case, I had the exact same problem myself when I built
> (re)make from source without the cygwin-specific patches.
>
> In my case I fixed it by porting the diffs from the cygwin make-3.80 source
> package. (I have users who require a mixed-mode make environment).
>
>
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
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