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Re: bootstrap failure with colons in objdir
- To: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: bootstrap failure with colons in objdir
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 30 Jul 2001 22:54:10 -0300
- Cc: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>, libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.1010730180946.12959A-100000@taarna.cygnus.com>
On Jul 30, 2001, Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Huh? Quoting filenames in Makefile targets or dependencies? No, this
>> won't work. Sorry if I'm out of context.
> Hmm. I'm trying to figure out how to get Gerald's pathological build
> setup working again.
How about simply removing the ${target_builddir} from the target
pathname, or replacing it with a relative pathname if it isn't just a
full-pathname version of `.'?
> Directory paths, not filenames, have to be able to deal with this.
> I thought quoting would help. Am I wrong? What would work?
There's no such thing as quoting target filenames or dependencies in
Makefiles. This is one of the most annoying limitations of make.
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