Re: can't get far if file has difficult name

[Jon Grant]

Hi

Dan Jacobson elucidated on 30/11/06 17:14:
> $ cat Makefile
> .PRECIOUS:.%.time
> %.t:.%.time;
> .%.time:%
>       bla bla bla
> $ ls -1
> Makefile
> 霧峰-桐林(有經朝陽科技大學) - Wufeng-Tonglin (Via Zhaoyang Technical University)
> 
> Well, no amount of quoting will enable me to
> $ make '霧峰-桐林(有經朝陽科技大學) - Wufeng-Tonglin (Via Zhaoyang Technical 
> University)'.t
> make: *** No rule to make target ...

If those Asian characters are a filename you need to specify -f filename
 when you call make if you would like to process that file.

Otherwise if you would like to process your "Makefile" Just call "make"
with no arguments.

Cheers
Jon