>>>>> "Greg" == Greg A Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> If we can deal with ":" - fine, if we cannot - no problem.

Greg> It might be sensible for GNU Make to try and introduce quoting
Greg> rules that would allow ':' to be used in filenames.  However I
Greg> would hope that wouldn't mean that the GNU Coding Standards, and
Greg> in particular Automake, would require that GNU Make be used
Greg> unconditionally because of this feature.

Don't worry.  Unfortunately, for the purposes of automake, it is much
too late to fix this particular "make" botch.  There are many file
names we can't handle.  That is life.

Tom

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