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Re: How to handle files with ':' in the file name?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: How to handle files with ':' in the file name? |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:35:41 +0300 |
> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:48:39 -0500
> From: Peng Yu <address@hidden>
>
> I want to have filenames with ':' in Makefile. Simply adding '\'
> before ':' doesn't work. I have grepped the manual by ':'. But there
> are two many ':'s, I can't see where it mentiones how ':' is escaped.
> Could you please let me know how to escape ':' in a Makefile?
Try defining a variable whose value is the colon ':', and then use
that variable in the rest of the Makefile. Caveat: I didn't actually
try that.