Cygwin make error : *** target pattern contains no `%'

Question

I got this error while (re)building, using cygwin make.exe version :3.81.

Error : *** target pattern contains no `%\'.

Answer 1

Most likely due to the presence of a colon following a drive letter. For example consider

build : $(NativeHeaders)/*

If

NativeHeaders=../../../cpp/generated

then all is well, but

NativeHeaders=C:/dev/folder/cpp/generated

results in the error that you get.

Answer 2

In my case I was using CMake under Cygwin when I got this error. It turned out the Windows version of CMake was executed. Subsequently, Windows paths were used in the make file. I installed Cygwin's version of CMake through the setup program and got it working.

Answer 3

Try this if you're running Eclipse C/C++ and referencing files from Cygwin under Windows, make sure c:/cygwin/bin or c:/cygwin64/bin comes after your preferred compiler tools in your Windows Path environment.

Example: Path = ;C:\yagarto\bin;C:\yagarto-tools\bin;C:\cygwin64\bin;

After making the changes, exit Eclipse and restart for it to take effect (simply restarting Eclipse without exiting won't fix the problem.

Answer 4

I had to change the following in my make file to be compatible with Make_381:
before:
ARDUINO_BASE_DIR = C:\programs/arduino

now:
ARDUINO_BASE_DIR = \\programs/arduino

Answer 5

In my project, obj folder was probably corrupted and I was getting this error. Manually deleted obj folder. Then ndk-build completed fine.

Answer 6

I had this problem on Linux when the build directory contained a ":" caused by doing a mercurial checkout which created a directory named "server:port".