Re: How to handle ':' in filenames?

[Lane Schwartz]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to handle filenames with ':' in it. But neither of the
> following two ways work. Could anybody let me know if there is a way
> to hand filenames with ':' using make?
>
> .PHONY: all
>
> colon:=:
> foo:=abc_xyz.txt
> bar:=$(subst _,$(colon),$(foo))
>
> all: $(bar)
>
> $(bar):
>        touch $@
>
> #Neither the above nor the below works.
> #all: abc$(colon)xyz.txt
> #
> #abc$(colon)xyz.txt:
> #       touch $@


Do you have existing files (which have colons in their names) that you wish
to list as dependencies?

Or do you wish to create new files which should have colons in their names?

Lane