Please always remember to tell us which operating system you're using.
%% "Angel Tsankov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
at> *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop.
at> What is this supposed to mean?! I.e. why does a target patter have
at> to contain a '%'?
Please see the GNU make manual chapter "Errors Generated by Make" where
you will find a (more) full explanation of the messages printed by make.
Here's what it says about this error:
`missing target pattern. Stop.'
`multiple target patterns. Stop.'
`target pattern contains no `%'. Stop.'
`mixed implicit and static pattern rules. Stop.'
These are generated for malformed static pattern rules. The first
means there's no pattern in the target section of the rule; the
second means there are multiple patterns in the target section;
the third means the target doesn't contain a pattern character
(`%'); and the fourth means that all three parts of the static
pattern rule contain pattern characters (`%')-only the first two
parts should. *Note Syntax of Static Pattern Rules: Static Usage.
One thing not mentioned here is that this can be caused by drive
specifiers on Windows systems; that is if your command line looks like:
c:/foo : d:/bar
then make can get very confused due to the extra ":". Technically ":"
is not an allowed character in a filename in a makefile. The
DOS/Windows/OS2 ports of GNU make have code which tries to detect
whether the ":" is there because of a drive specifier and handle it
properly. If you think this is not working correctly please contact the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list (which is specifically for issues with
DOS/Windows/OS2 ports of GNU make) and provide full details.
at> BTW, version 3.81beta3 built for Windows does not report such an
at> error. Which make is wrong?
Since you haven't shown us the line of the makefile that generates the
message, there's no way to tell.
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