Bug 5606

Summary: Makefile breaks if path to $srctree contains a colon
Product: Busybox Reporter: Sam Thursfield <sam.thursfield>
Component: OtherAssignee: unassigned
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: minor CC: busybox-cvs
Priority: P5    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description Sam Thursfield 2012-10-16 15:28:40 UTC
sam@droopy:~/projects:local/busybox {}$ make
Makefile:363: *** target pattern contains no `%'.  Stop.

It's not possible to escape : in this context[1], however, I don't see why the Makefile needs to know the absolute path to the source tree, and I'm yet to find any other projects that break in this way.

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-make@gnu.org/msg03318.html