%% "Alfred M\. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ps> It's not clear to me what the problem is with having a late beta
ps> of GNU make installed into Debian unstable. If these changes are
ps> going to be in the next release would it really have made much
ps> difference to wait for that?
%% "Jason Sheu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
js> I cannot seem to escape ":" from the name name. Here is a test
js> Makefile.
Using colons in prerequisite names is not supported by make (same with
spaces in names).
There is an enhancement request on this in the Savannah bug database.
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In Info "5.2 Command Execution", be sure the best way of all to avoid
newline accidents:
qz:
perl -we 'print 1$(\
)23'
Works in both make of today and yesterday at least.
Also this: "You may split a long line by inserting a backslash followed
by a newline, but this is not required,
Hi,
I cannot seem to escape “:” from the name name.
Here is a test Makefile.
53> cat Makefile
all: testDirColon testFileColon
testDirColon: dir\:1/file1
echo "Dir
test passed: $?"
testFileColon: dir2/file1\:1
echo "File
test passed: $?"
31> gmake
g
