Re: can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Martin Dorey
e that open parenthesis didn't suffer from the same problem.) - Original Message - From: Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Martin Dorey Cc: Jon Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; bug-make@gnu.org ; Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thu Nov 30 21:20:43 2006 Subject: RE: ca

RE: can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 18:30 -0800, Martin Dorey wrote: > -rw-rw-r-- 1 martind software 0 2006-11-30 16:44 bracket() > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/make-2006-11-30$ make 'bracket()'.t > make: *** No rule to make target `bracket().t'. Stop. That seems to be a bug. I can reproduce it. On the other han

RE: can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Martin Dorey
an Jacobson Subject: RE: can't get far if file has difficult name On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 16:52 -0800, Martin Dorey wrote: > Works for me if I remove the two close-parentheses and replace the white > space with underscores. Open-parenthesis fine, close-parenthesis bad. > Weird. Cl

RE: can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 16:52 -0800, Martin Dorey wrote: > Works for me if I remove the two close-parentheses and replace the white > space with underscores. Open-parenthesis fine, close-parenthesis bad. > Weird. Close-parenthesis is also bad with Debian sarge's make-3.80. I suspect that has to d

RE: can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Martin Dorey
bug-make@gnu.org; Dan Jacobson Subject: Re: can't get far if file has difficult name On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 22:51 +, Jon Grant wrote: > Martin Dorey elucidated on 30/11/06 21:32: > > Isn't this more relevant? (Quoting from here on.) > > Yeah, Looking at it again I can see

Re: can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 22:51 +, Jon Grant wrote: > Martin Dorey elucidated on 30/11/06 21:32: > > Isn't this more relevant? (Quoting from here on.) > > Yeah, Looking at it again I can see that's likely the problem. I might need to reopen that bug; there definitely was a change in behavior WRT

Re: can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Jon Grant
Martin Dorey elucidated on 30/11/06 21:32: > Isn't this more relevant? (Quoting from here on.) Yeah, Looking at it again I can see that's likely the problem. Jon ___ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-mak

RE: can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Martin Dorey
- Martin's Outlook, BlueArc Engineering -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Grant Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 13:26 To: Dan Jacobson Cc: bug-make@gnu.org Subject: Re: can't get far if file has difficult nam

Re: can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Jon Grant
Hi Dan Jacobson elucidated on 30/11/06 17:14: > $ cat Makefile > .PRECIOUS:.%.time > %.t:.%.time; > .%.time:% > bla bla bla > $ ls -1 > Makefile > 霧峰-桐林(有經朝陽科技大學) - Wufeng-Tonglin (Via Zhaoyang Technical University) > > Well, no amount of quoting will enable me to > $ make '霧峰-桐林(有經朝陽科技大學)

can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Dan Jacobson
$ cat Makefile .PRECIOUS:.%.time %.t:.%.time; .%.time:% bla bla bla $ ls -1 Makefile 霧峰-桐林(有經朝陽科技大學) - Wufeng-Tonglin (Via Zhaoyang Technical University) Well, no amount of quoting will enable me to $ make '霧峰-桐林(有經朝陽科技大學) - Wufeng-Tonglin (Via Zhaoyang Technical University)'.t make: *** N