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'.
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