From: Eric Backus <ericb AT lsid DOT hp DOT com>
Subject: Re: gnu make woes
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp)
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 94 10:03:59 PDT
Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]

Potter (rri!potter AT vtserf DOT cc DOT vt DOT edu) writes:
> > OBJPATH=h:
> > OBJ= $(OBJPATH)/file.o
> > all:	$(OBJ) 
> > 	echo hello
> > 
> > 
> > GNU make says it is expecting a % sign (due to the expanding OBJPATH to h:)
> > This is ugly for a make that is supposed to run under DOS.
> 
> Has anyone come up with a solution to this problem?  I know of a
> possible work around for one working with multiple local hard drives
> (the JOIN command).  However my development environment envolves
> network drives, and join doesn't work with network drives (or
> atleast it didn't the last time I tried (c.  v5.0)).  Thanks.

For GNU make, you can escape the ':' with a leading backslash.  This
is not ideal, because non-GNU makes will probably try to use a literal
backslash.  But it should work.
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				Eric Backus
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