Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/04/15/11:28:05
> Potter (rri!potter AT vtserf DOT cc DOT vt DOT edu) writes:
> > > OBJPATH=h:
> > > OBJ= $(OBJPATH)/file.o
> > > all: $(OBJ)
> > > echo hello
> > >
> > >
> > > GNU make says it is expecting a % sign (due to the expanding OBJPATH to h:)
> > > This is ugly for a make that is supposed to run under DOS.
> >
> > Has anyone come up with a solution to this problem? I know of a
> > possible work around for one working with multiple local hard drives
> > (the JOIN command). However my development environment envolves
> > network drives, and join doesn't work with network drives (or
> > atleast it didn't the last time I tried (c. v5.0)). Thanks.
>
> For GNU make, you can escape the ':' with a leading backslash. This
> is not ideal, because non-GNU makes will probably try to use a literal
> backslash. But it should work.
Eric,
Thanks for the reply. However it did not work. The backslash did
escape the meaning of the ':', thus no longer conplaining about the missing
'%'. However the backslash was left in an thus complained about no rule for
the target. Example:
Makefile:
all: d\:/tmp/source.o
echo It Worked
Produces:
gmake.exe: *** No rule to make target `d\:/tmp/source.o'. Stop.
I also tried several of the other UNIX style escapings ", ', and `, but none
worked. Well, thanks for the suggestion.
Potter
rri!potter AT vtserv DOT cc DOT vt DOT edu
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