make chain-build doesn't work as advertised

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:52:45 +0100
Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:12:13 +0200
> Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have tried to use colons in make chain-build, but it didn't
> > worked. I kicked a build without the grouping, but maybe this could
> > be investigated?
> > 
> > $ make chain-build CHAIN='libdap bes:gdal:libnc-dap
> > dap-server:dap-hdf4_handler:dap-netcdf_handler' cvs server: cannot
> > find module `bes:gdal:libnc-dap' - ignored cvs [checkout aborted]:
> > cannot expand modules make: *** [chain-build] Erreur 1
> > 
> > 
> > another possibility is that I misunderstood the syntax.
> 
> Try putting spaces around the colons (both sides).

And in cases where you're using colons, you almost certainly want a
colon at the end too:

$ make chain-build CHAIN='libdap bes : gdal : libnc-dap dap-server : dap-hdf4_handler : dap-netcdf_handler :'

Paul.