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From: Robert Mecklenburg <mecklen@cimsoft.com>
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Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 21:41:04 -0600
To: "Ricky Wildman" <r.wildman1@ntlworld.com>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: problems with make under cygwin
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RW> ... but when I try these under cygwin I get
RW> the following error:
RW> 
RW> Target pattern contains no '%'

I've seen this message many times when a target or prerequisite (both
or one of, I can't remember) contains a windows path.  In that case,
make sees a line with two colons and believes it is seeing a malformed
static pattern rule.

Hope this helps,
-- 
Robert


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