RE: repost - target with a colon in the name

[Asperheim, Eric]

Paul,

Thanks! I did try escaping before but didn't do it in all parts of
Makefile. Thus, it didn't appear to work. After escaping all : in the
Makefile, it worked. Glad it's that simple.

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Smith [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Paul D.
Smith
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 9:05 PM
To: Asperheim, Eric
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Subject: Re: repost - target with a colon in the name


%% "Asperheim, Eric" <address@hidden> writes:

  ae> Is there anyway to have a gmake target with a colon in the name?
For
  ae> example:

  ae> a.mdb:1 : a.vhdl

  ae>         @ echo $@

  ae> I've tried this and gmake doesn't appear to like it. 

a.mdb\:1 : a.vhdl
        @echo $@

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