Re: How to handle files with ':' in the file name?

[Oleksandr Gavenko]

On 16.07.2010 2:48, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to have filenames with ':' in Makefile. Simply adding '\'
> before ':' doesn't work. I have grepped the manual by ':'. But there
> are two many ':'s, I can't see where it mentiones how ':' is escaped.
> Could you please let me know how to escape ':' in a Makefile?
>
> .PHONY: all
>
> all: a\:b.txt
>
> a\:b.txt:
>         echo $@
Not all FS allow any chars can be appear in path. For example see

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247%28VS.85%29.aspx#naming_conventions

But handling Windows-like path is interesting for me:

c:\windows\system32\my.dll: d:\home\my.dll
    copy $< $@

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С уважением, Александр Гавенко.