Escaping colons in filenames in a Makefile

Question

Is there a way to get GNU make to work correctly with filenames that contain colons?

The specific problem I\'m running into happens to involve a pattern rule. Here\

Answer 1

There is another way i've found today when dealing with Makefile variables defining filenames (containing colons).

# definition
SOME_FNAME = $(NAME)__colon__$(VERSION)

# usage in target
foo:
    $(do_something) $(subst __colon__,:,$(SOME_FNAME))