Re: make: :: embeded in targets

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 10:15:18PM -0800, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
 > One of my collegues has been running freebsd's regression tests with
 > bmake...
 > 
 > The patch below, allows something like:
 > 
 > all: silly::target
 > silly::target:
 >      @echo hi
 > 
 > to work, instead of saying
 > 
 > make: don't know how to make silly::target. Stop

ugh, is that really necessary?

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David A. Holland
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