There's a slightly confusing thing about escaping percent signs... you
only do it to the targets.
all: test\%1
doesn't refer to
test\%1: ; blah...
it refers to
test\\\%1: ; blah
Mongo no like (but doesn't really care provided he understands)
Seeya, byebye,
jon.
%% Jon Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jw> There seems to be a bug handling files with percent signs in their
jw> names (and the person who decided to name temp files like that).
Targets with percent signs in their names require special handling,
since make will treat them as pattern rules
%% John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
js> This is particularly evident with a command such as this:
js> make -j4 clean all install
js> The problem is that the 'clean' target makes things that may be
js> built by 'all' vanish; if 'make clean' us still running when 'make
js> al
