RE: repost - target with a colon in the name

[Paul D. Smith]

There is no good way to do this, I'm sorry to say.  Unfortunately when
GNU make was designed issues of escaping special characters were not
widely considered, leading to inconsistencies.  I don't know of any way,
offhand, to escape a ":" in the prerequisites list.

Even more unfortunately, every time I've suggested a syntax change such
as allowing escaping of special chars in the prerequisites list with
"\", I hear from people who have makefiles that would break.

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