Colon in Directory causes make to fail

[mhale . nospam]

I'm working on AIX and Linux.
I'm using 3.79.1 gmake

My directory name has ":" in it, but I can't change it because this is
an
enhancement to
an automated system(the automated part is someone else's work)

Directory Structure:

>ls -l Loadl.Apr_25_12:26:00.TEST
total 4
-rw-r--r--   1 mhale    staff        322 Apr 25 12:53 README
-rw-r--r--   1 mhale    staff          0 Apr 25 12:48 dependency.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 32766    staff        421 Apr 25 12:48 makefile

I simplied touched the dependency.txt file for this example.

First run:
gmake
        You'll get " *** target pattern contains no `%'"
        gmake seems to think that the directory name with : is the
directive(understandably so)

I attempted a fix by escaping all of the :, so : becomes \:

Now run:
gmake ATTEMPTED_FIX=1
        You'll get a message stating that the dependency file can not
be found.





my makefile is below:
TEST1 = dependency.txt
TEST2 = ${PWD}/${TEST1}
TEST3 = ${shell echo ${TEST2} | sed "s/:/\\\\:/g"}
TARGET = output.filea output.fileb

    #This was my original code which produces the following error:
ifndef ATTEMPTED_FIX
${TARGET} : ${TEST2}
else
    #The line using TEST3 was my proposed solution
    # escape out all of the : to \: (see TEST3 def above)
${TARGET} : ${TEST3}
endif
        echo ${TARGET} depends on ${TEST2}





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