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>> $(DOCTARGETFILE): $(DOCSOURCEFILES)                                \

>See that trailing backslash at the end of the first line?  What it
>does is effectively splice the target dependency with the command to
>run for that target.  Make complains about multiple target pattern
>because $(JAVAURL) includes a colon (it expands to "http://...").  So
>what Make sees is something like this:
>
>  foo: bar baz some: more
>
>Because of the colon, this indeed looks like more than one target is
>described on a single dependency line: the first target is `foo', the
>other is `some'.  And Make is too dumb to catch the *real* problem.

ARGH. That explains it. It must have crept in when I split the long
command line to be viewable at 78 columns originally.

Yup, it works now. Thanks.


>>[News client splitting lines at 60 columns]
>Thank you!  This time, I didn't need to edit the file at all.

Now later I will be seeing if I can set it to something reasonable
like 78 columns. :-)