[bug #18435] no rule to make target whose name contains close parenthesis

[Martin Dorey]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?18435>

                 Summary: no rule to make target whose name contains close
parenthesis
                 Project: make
            Submitted by: mdorey
            Submitted on: Friday 12/01/2006 at 18:52
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Bug
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
       Component Version: 3.81
        Operating System: POSIX-Based
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

With this makefile:

.PRECIOUS:.%.time
%.t:.%.time;
.%.time:%
        bla bla bla

And a file on the file system called "bracket()":

-rw-rw-r-- 1 martind software 0 2006-11-30 16:44 bracket()

$ make 'bracket()'.t
make: *** No rule to make target `bracket().t'.  Stop.
$

Paul says [

That seems to be a bug.  I can reproduce it.  On the other hand I can do
this:

  $ touch 'foo(bar)baz'
  $ make 'foo(bar)baz.t'

and I don't get this error: it actually runs the rule, so it's not just
parentheses.  I wonder if it has to do with archive support.  This should be
reported on Savannah.

].

OP (cc:d) was Dan Jacobson.





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