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Re: make chokes on rules with colons in it
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Paul D. Smith |
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Re: make chokes on rules with colons in it |
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Sat, 3 Jan 2004 09:55:00 -0500 |
%% Jordi Mallach <address@hidden> writes:
jm> I've been trying to build GNU mailutils for Debian inside
jm> svn-buildpackage, which copies the source to a build area using
jm> the debian version as the path. Debian version had been until now
jm> "20031103-1", for example. Now, it's something like
jm> "1:0.4+20031231-1", and make doesn't like this, due to the colon
jm> in the path.
Correct. You can't include ":" as part of a target or prerequisite name
in GNU make (at least not reliably).
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