On 27 February 2017 at 15:56, J.J. Green <email address hidden> wrote:
> This would seem to be a recent change to behaviour, and a quick google
> search shows examples with a space before the colon in Gnu make's own
> documentation and of other makes. This being the case, a couple of
> lines of C printing a more helpful message in the case that the Makefile
> requests that it load an .so called ":" might be appropriate. Just
> sayin'.
>
On 27 February 2017 at 15:56, J.J. Green <email address hidden> wrote:
> This would seem to be a recent change to behaviour, and a quick google
> search shows examples with a space before the colon in Gnu make's own
> documentation and of other makes. This being the case, a couple of
> lines of C printing a more helpful message in the case that the Makefile
> requests that it load an .so called ":" might be appropriate. Just
> sayin'.
>
Valid point, maybe raise it with upstream?
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Regards,
Dimitri.