Re: Problem with escaped parens

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:

> > Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:28:15 -0500
> > From: Bill Hoffman <address@hidden>
> >
> > With the patched cygwin build of make I am having some trouble with
> > escaped () in depend
> > lines in makefiles.
> >
> > all: C:/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/CMake\
> > 2.4/share/cmake-2.4/Modules/TestBigEndian.c
> >     echo hello or something
> >
> > I get this:
> >
> > make: *** No rule to make target `C:/Program Files \(x86\)/CMake 2.4
> > /share/cmake-2.4/Modules/TestBigEndian.c', needed by
> >  `all'.  Stop.
>
> Did the same work (if you remove the drive letter) with the unpatched
> Cygwin build of Make 3.81?

What if you quote the object of target all?  Like this:

<code>
all: "C:/Program\ Files\ 
\(x86\)/CMake\2.4/share/cmake-2.4/Modules/TestBigEndian.c"
</code>

Please do watch the linewrap.

Earnie Boyd
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