Re: can't get far if file has difficult name

[Martin Dorey]

> so it's not just parentheses.
> I wonder if it has to do with archive support.  

Ah, interesting.

> This should be reported on Savannah.

Perhaps the OP would like the honor?

>> bla bla bla

> This is perfectly legitimate

(Indeed.  I only mentioned it to demonstrate that open parenthesis didn't 
suffer from the same problem.)

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
To: Martin Dorey
Cc: Jon Grant <address@hidden>; address@hidden <address@hidden>; Dan Jacobson 
<address@hidden>
Sent: Thu Nov 30 21:20:43 2006
Subject: RE: can't get far if file has difficult name

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 18:30 -0800, Martin Dorey wrote:

> -rw-rw-r-- 1 martind software 0 2006-11-30 16:44 bracket()
> address@hidden:~/tmp/make-2006-11-30$ make 'bracket()'.t
> make: *** No rule to make target `bracket().t'.  Stop.

That seems to be a bug.  I can reproduce it.  On the other hand I can do
this:

  $ touch 'foo(bar)baz'
  $ make 'foo(bar)baz.t'

and I don't get this error: it actually runs the rule, so it's not just
parentheses.  I wonder if it has to do with archive support.  This
should be reported on Savannah.

> address@hidden:~/tmp/make-2006-11-30$ make 'bracket('.t
> bla bla bla
> make: bla: Command not found
> make: *** [.bracket(.time] Error 127

This is perfectly legitimate, and not an error in make (Dan's original
example didn't have a real command to run in the event it actually
worked).