Re: How to handle files with ':' in the file name?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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.