Target pattern contains no '%'. Makefile

Question

I have searched this problem in google, but still don\'t have some way to resolve a problem. I have 2 Makefiles: One as example and one as my file. Example:

Answer 1

This is a badly written error message from Make. It means "one of your filenames had a character that could be part of a regular expression". Make is very naive about filesystems and quoting. It doesn't believe that:

foo:  'The bar.'

refers to a literal string. It takes The as one word, bar. as another word, and then barfs on the period. Do this instead:

foo:  The\ bar\.

or in your case, backslash to the period in .xcodeproj.

Answer 2

Drop the line 11 on https://github.com/mkovalyk/IIViewDeckControllerBinding/blob/master/src/binding/Makefile. %' is not recognised by make

Answer 3

This won't work:

default:
        echo "Hello world!"

This will:

default:
	echo "Hello world!"

Can you spot the difference?

That's right, the first one has spaces, the second one has tabs. The one with spaces will give you:

Makefile:2: *** missing separator. Stop.

And this is why we cannot have nice things...

Answer 4

This error occurred for me because I had a rule of the form

foo: bar:
        baz

(note the trailing :).

Answer 5

I had this problem if there was a colon in the target file name (i.e. a time stamp), for example:

 all: foo_01:34.txt
 
 foo_%.txt: bar_%.txt
      foobar $< > $@

I had to escape it:

 all: foo_01\:34.txt
 
 foo_%.txt: bar_%.txt
      foobar $< > $@

Answer 6

Solved: just go to the project tab it will present on vertical tab section then go to general and just change the location of project