Comment 3 for bug 709361

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Florian Achleitner (fachleitner) wrote :

Hello!

Does this only happen on Windows with make 3.82?
But never with 3.81?
It seems something changed with Quoting/Escaping of parenthesis.
Parenthesis are used in makefiles to specify archive members [1] and the release notes say they fixed a bug in this area [2].

A quick workaround for those affected by the problem will be renaming your files, without parenthesis.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Archive-Members.html#Archive-Members
[2] http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?18435