On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:32:04PM -0700, Jim Lawson wrote: >> > Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:15:27 -0400 >> From: "Aslam Karachiwala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: cygwin@cygwin.com >> Subject: make (v. 3.81) fails -- "target pattern >> contains no `%'" >> >> cygcheck.out attached. >> >> The Makefiles were copied from Solaris 10, and make >> worked fine prior >> to the update yesterday (7/11/06), and it works >> fine, again, after I >> reverted back to make v. 3.80 >> >... >> >> The error -- target pattern contains no `%' -- >> occurs at a target >> such as the following: >> >> releaseproducts :: $(RELEASEDIR)/$(BINIMAGE) > >I think you'll find that this is due to the dropping of support for >Windows paths in the new (3.81) version of make. I suspect >$(RELEASEDIR) has a ':' in it somewhere. > >Try something like this: > >RELEASEDIR:=$(shell cygpath -u $(RELEASEDIR))
That is an inspired guess which never would have occurred to me. I'll bet you're right, though. That may even become a FAQ at some point. If this isn't the case then we'll (obviously?) need to see more of the makefile than the one failing line. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
