Re: trouble with ( in path or target name with CVS gmake on cygwin

[Bill Hoffman]

Bill Hoffman wrote:
> I did a CVS checkout of gmake on this date:
>
> checkout date: 2009-12-30 16:00
> $ cat CVS/Root
> :pserver:address@hidden:/sources/make
> $ cat CVS/Repository
> make
>
> I have the cygwin built make renamed to make.orig:
>
> $ make.orig --version
> GNU Make 3.81
>
> $ make --version
> GNU Make 3.81.90
>
> I create some small makefiles, one with () in the file name:
>
>
> $ cat "foo.make"
> include bar(x).make
>
> $ cat "bar(x).make"
> foo(x)/tada:
>         @echo tada
>
> Works with original make:
>
> $ make.orig -f "bar(x).make" "foo(x)/tada"
> tada
>
> Fails with cvs make:
> $ make -f "bar(x).make" "foo(x)/tada"
> make: *** No rule to make target `foo(x)/tada'.  Stop.
>
> Works with original make:
> $ make.orig -f "foo.make"
> tada
>
> Fails with CVS make:
> $ make -f "foo.make"
> foo.make:1: x).make): No such file or directory
> make: *** No rule to make target `x).make)'.  Stop.

This also seems to be broken on linux.
make --version
GNU Make 3.81
../make/make --version
GNU Make 3.81.90

$ ../make/make -f foo.make
foo.make:1: x).make): No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `x).make)'.  Stop.

$ make -f foo.make
tada

Should I post this to a different mailing list since it is not just a 
cygwin issue?

-Bill