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bug in SW's make.exe (v3.81) ? : "Malformed target-specific variable definition" error [fixed]

Posted by MrBlueXav on 2016-01-10 00:37

Hello !
When trying to compile applications from STM32CubeF7, I’ve got a “make” error in reading a subdir.mk file :
“Malformed target-specific variable definition”.
It happens for example in STemWin_HelloWorld application.

It might be a bug in old make version due to a too long command line, as seen here :
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36106Question
I fixed it with replacing SW’s make with this one, which is version 4.1 :
http://www.equation.com/servlet/equation.cmd?fa=makeQuestion

Hope it helps...
Maybe AC6 could update the make tool ?
Thank you
Best regards
Xavier

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Posted by dautrevaux on 2016-01-10 12:22 France

Hi,

Thanks for the bug report. Could you please post the offending subdir.mk file, so that we can work out a workaround to avoid problems with the standard version of make (version 4 is quite uncommon and we only provide our own make on windows, on Linux we use the standard one, which is usually 3.81 or 3.82 but not 4.1).

Bernard (Ac6)

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Posted by MrBlueXav on 2016-01-10 18:02

The problematic line in the subdir.mk file is :

Middlewares/STemWin/Config/GUIConf.o: K:/_STM32_/stm32cubef7/STM32Cube_FW_F7_V1.3.0/Projects/STM32746G-Discovery/Applications/STemWin/STemWin_HelloWorld/Src/GUIConf.c


The offending subdir.mk file is in :
........../STM32746G_DISCOVERY/Debug/Middlewares/STemWin/Config/subdir.mk

My OS is Windows Vista.

Xavier

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Posted by MrBlueXav on 2016-01-10 18:26

Well, after more investigation, I see that the problem comes from an exotic folder name (_STM32_ surrounded by three “=” which I can’t reproduce here due to formatting codes) !
So no problem with make 3.81 if paths have no fancy names... just letters, numbers and _ .
Sorry to bother !
Xavier

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Posted by dautrevaux on 2016-01-10 21:43 France

Hi Xavier

OK, now I understand: an ‘=’ in the right-hand side of a dependency in a Makefile define a target-dependent variable, whose name is the left-hand side of the equal sign and the value is the right-hand side of the equal. This variable will be valid only when executing commands to build the current target (what is on the left of the ‘:’) or one of its dependencies.

The problem there was that K:/ is definitly not a valid variable name... If it had been, you will not have had the error, but the build will have failed for another reason, as a dependency would have missed for your target...

So, it’s right: avoid fancy folder names, and especially always omit ‘=’ signs in a folder name (by the way its the first time I see such a folder name...)

Regards,

Bernard (Ac6)

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Posted by MrBlueXav on 2016-01-10 22:31

Thank you for your explanation Bernard !
No more fancy here, promised ! wink
Xavier

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