Re: colon - windows path "C:/Program Files/libtoto.h"

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.make.windows
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:11:37 +0100
> From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> 
> I use GNU Make 3.81 on windows directly with DOS (not cygwin). It's for a little makefile library http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/makecfiles.
> 
> I have a problem with paths that contain ":". This problem has already been mentioned, but no solution has been made.
> http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/[email protected]/9534935.html
> The problem mentioned in another discussion (http://www.nabble.com/3.81-and-windows-paths-td5527972.html#a5552260
> ) is that :
> foo : c:bar
> should this be interpreted as a static pattern rule:
> foo : c : bar

Please show a short self-contained example of a Makefile that gives
you trouble with colons.  It could be a bug.  You shouldn't need to do
anything special to get c:/foo/bar file names supported on Windows.

Also, please show any error messages that the example emits.
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