bootstrap failure with colons in objdir
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva@redhat.com
Mon Jul 30 18:55:00 GMT 2001
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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