make (v. 3.81) fails -- "target pattern contains no `%'"

Thu Jul 13 00:45:00 GMT 2006

> > Date: 2006年7月12日 20:15:27 -0400
> From: "Aslam Karachiwala" <akwala@gmail.com>
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: make (v. 3.81) fails -- "target pattern
> contains no `%'"
>> cygcheck.out attached.
>> The Makefiles were copied from Solaris 10, and make
> worked fine prior
> to the update yesterday (7/11/06), and it works
> fine, again, after I
> reverted back to make v. 3.80
>...
>> The error -- target pattern contains no `%' --
> occurs at a target
> such as the following:
>> releaseproducts :: $(RELEASEDIR)/$(BINIMAGE)
>> --aslam
>
I think you'll find that this is due to the dropping
of support for Windows paths in the new (3.81) version
of make.
I suspect $(RELEASEDIR) has a ':' in it somewhere.
Try something like this:
 RELEASEDIR:=$(shell cygpath -u $(RELEASEDIR))
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