Re: colon in prerequisites?!

[Stephan Beal]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Warlich, Christof <
address@hidden> wrote:

> target: $(shell cygpath -m $(abspath source))
>    echo $<
>
> I get the following error message:
>
> Makefile:2: *** target pattern contains no `%'.  Stop.
>

That's not the only problem you'll have with this: now try adding the
cygwinified path as a _rule_, e.g.:

c:/a:
        touch $@
all: c:/a

i.e. if make doesn't know how to rebuild the dependent file you'll get "no
rule to build ...". Since it would appear to be syntactically impossible to
declare such a rule, i think this use-case might be impossible to do in
make. Maybe one of the Gurus can figure out a solution. Or maybe you can use
cygwin symlinks to work around it? (i'm only guessing - i don't use
Windows.)

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