Bug 5606 - Makefile breaks if path to $srctree contains a colon
Summary: Makefile breaks if path to $srctree contains a colon
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Busybox
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: P5 minor
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Reported: 2012-10-16 15:28 UTC by Sam Thursfield
Modified: 2012-10-16 15:28 UTC (History)
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Description Sam Thursfield 2012-10-16 15:28:40 UTC 
sam@droopy:~/projects:local/busybox {}$ 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