On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 10:26:18AM +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> Another couple of bugettes are the failed 'Unable to find a perl 5'
> >> check performed by MakeMaker itself, and the fact that nmake complains
> >> if the name of a dependency contains a colon.
> >
> >Eh?
> 
> FOO = C:\X
> 
> $(FOO) : Bar
> 
> Expands to
> 
> C:\X : BAR
> 
> So 'C' depends on \X :-(

How does one normally get around this in make?  (Let's forget nmake
for a moment)

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Michael G. Schwern   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>    http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
Perl Quality Assurance      <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         Kwalitee Is Job One
I'm going to have to hurt you on principle.

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