On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 06:51:29PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > netpbm-free is broken based on turtle's bad handling of ':'. I > >will force all of these through by hand. (Maybe in time for > >today's update...)
> Oh. But make that *make*s bad handling of ':'. Or netpbms. Or whatever. ;) > Seriously, let's file bug reports against packages which use the > complete path in a way that makes make unhappy. ":" is not the only > troublesome character. I don't have enough information to do this. Every package that does: $(infodir)/gawk.info:: as a rule, or any similar construct to that will fail. I haven't found any way of succesfully escaping the colon's so that MAKE will handle it correctly. I think that we'll be filing unresolvable bugs against these packages. I will try emailing the maintainers of make once again. I had submitted a bug to the upstream gnats, but they don't appear to have responded to it. Paul's normally pretty good, but I don't know if he's been in exam hell. More after work... Tks, Jeff Bailey
