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Subject: RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:36:27 +0100
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On 14 August 2006 19:29, Bill Hoffman wrote:

> 3.80 does this:
> 
> make -f test.make
> make: *** No rule to make target `C:/foo', needed by `foo'.  Stop.
> 
> 
> 3.81 does this:
> make -f test.make
> test.make:1: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop.
> 
> test.make contains:
> foo: C:/foo
> 
> So, in 3.80 windows style driver letter : path worked with make.
> In 3.81, it no longer does.   Is this expected, can the old
> way be brought back?

  Search the archives, and read the release announcement for the new make
version.

  Every single day for the past month, we have had at least seventy-four[*]
identical duplicate redundant reports of this from people who haven't bothered
to check if it was already known.

    cheers,
      DaveK

[*] - exaggeration.  But not by much.
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