hi Todd, thanks for your reply and for tryin to help me out. I tried printin the variable name usin @echo $(LIBLIST) but this wouldn't get printed out, guess due to the error generated.
would running the *make* with *-d* or *--debug=b* help me out in this case? well, I couldn't find any better solutions. your suggestions awaited. -Pritam. On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Todd Showalter <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Pritam Nandy > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > when I try to make a make file using gnu make v3.60 it goes on fine but > when > > I try to use make v3.79 on the same file I get an error like this - > > mainLib.gmk:446: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop. > > > > line 446 of this line contains something like - > > genlib: $(LIBLIST) > > I'd suggest printing out $(LIBLIST) and see what you get. At a > guess, something in $(LIBLIST) has a % character in it. I'm going to > go out on a limb here and guess you're working on windows, and it's > expanding to something like: > > genlib: %DIR%/file.c > > Since windows environment variables are of the form %FOO%, and > IIRC make's (and cygwin's) handling of those has changed from version > to version. If you aren't running windows, it's still possible that > something in $(LIBLIST) has a % character in it. This will lead > directly to madness. > > If that's what you're getting, I presume what's happening is that > make is seeing the %, assuming it should be doing regex matching > between the target (genlib) and the prerequisite (%DIR%/file.c), and > can't find a % in the target to match the % symbols in the > prerequisite. > > Todd. > > -- > Todd Showalter, President, > Electron Jump Games, Inc. >
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