On 2013-05-29 09:41, Peter Rosin wrote: > Hi! > > On Automake master (baf8a1c22acce0908), t/subobj11a.sh fails > on MSYS/MSVC (depmode=msvc7msys), like this: > > + make quux > src/.deps/foo.Po:1: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop. > > > It appears that the generated foo.Po is broken. Adding a > cat "$depdir"/foo.Po > just before the $MAKE quux invocation reveals that the originally > generated foo.Po has this single line content: > > src/foo.obj : \ > > Notice the trailing backslash. When the testcase then adds a > line of its own, the trailing backslash makes it blow up.
I forgot to mention that adding an empty line before the other added line, e.g. with echo >> "$depdir"/foo.Po works around the problem and makes the test pass. Cheers, Peter
