Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/08/09/10:45:31
Thank-you. This reply was far more helpful than the previous.
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From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf
Of Christopher Faylor
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 10:17 AM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Colon in dependencies
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:10:15PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>On 09 August 2006 13:23, Brian Hassink wrote:
>> From: Rene Nitzsche
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 8:08 AM
>
>>>how can I use a colon in dependencies for make? If a dependency
>>>contains a colon, I get the error *** target pattern contains no `%'.
>>>Stop. I use GNU Make 3.81 for i686-pc-cygwin, GNU bash, version
>>>3.1.17(6)-release (i686-pc-cygwin). I had search for a solution in
>>>many newsgroups, but I can not found a solution.
>
>>I've run into the same problem after upgrading to 3.81-1 with
>>dependencies that contain a drive letter (e.g., x:\foo\bar.c).
>>
>>For now I've downgraded back to 3.80-1, but would obviously be
>>interested in a better solution.
>
>Before reporting a problem to the mailing list, it's a good idea to a)
>read the release announcement, in case what you think is a problem is
>in fact a by-design feature, and b) search the list archives, in case
>we've been discussing nothing else for the past fortnight and everyone
>is heartily sick of going over the same old ground again.
Yes, what he said.
Also, FYI, I posted two scripts for converting a makefile from c:\foo to
cygwin path format here:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00830.html
cgf
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