On 27 February 2017 at 15:56, J.J. Green <1667...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > This would seem to be a recent change to behaviour, and a quick google > search shows examples with a space before the colon in Gnu make's own > documentation and of other makes. This being the case, a couple of > lines of C printing a more helpful message in the case that the Makefile > requests that it load an .so called ":" might be appropriate. Just > sayin'. >
Valid point, maybe raise it with upstream? -- Regards, Dimitri. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to make-dfsg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1667821 Title: load target breaks make Status in make-dfsg package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: With the following Makefile: -- load : hello hello : echo "all is well" -- the commands "make", "make hello", "make load" result in error with message Makefile:1: :: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Makefile:1: *** :: failed to load. Stop. this minimal example extracted from a Makefile with a load target which has been used weekly for 10+ years. $ make --version GNU Make 4.1 Built for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Copyright (C) 1988-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Licence GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. $ lsb_release -rd Description: Linux Mint 18.1 Serena Release: 18.1 $ apt-cache policy make make: Installed: 4.1-6 Candidate: 4.1-6 Version table: *** 4.1-6 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/make-dfsg/+bug/1667821/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
