On Thu, 03 Mar 2011, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
The patch below, allows something like:
all: silly::target
silly::target:
@echo hi
to work, instead of saying
make: don't know how to make silly::target. Stop
Hmm, but it will break this:
all:foo
foo:
@echo hi
Perhaps some sort of backslash escaping or variable substitution
could be used? (silly\:\:target or silly${COLON}${COLON}target).
--apb (Alan Barrett)