From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758755AbYCYSVv (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:21:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753553AbYCYSVn (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:21:43 -0400 Received: from pasmtpb.tele.dk ([80.160.77.98]:34289 "EHLO pasmtpB.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750858AbYCYSVn (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:21:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:22:05 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Bart Van Assche Cc: LKML Subject: Re: Kernel compilation: make halts with error message "*** target pattern contains no `%'" Message-ID: <20080325182205.GA29986@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 04:15:49PM +0100, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Bart Van Assche > wrote: > > When I try to compile the latest git tree > > Found the cause: apparently this is what happens when the path > containing the kernel source tree contains a colon. Renaming the > kernel source tree directory solved this issue. Thanks for letting us know. And using 'colon' in the path is a "don't do that" thing that we will not try to check for. Sam