MakeFile Error: "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect"

Question

I encountered this error when I was running my makefile:

clean: cleanlib
cleanlib:
    ( cd "D:\third party components\arpack96\ARPACK\BLAS"; "D:\third party components\arpack96\ARPACK\make" clean )

The command I use to run the make file is

make clean

This is incomprehensible, as both the paths are actually available on my machine ( I took great care to check it).

I am using Windows XP, not sure whether that makes a difference or not.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Try changing the back slashes to forward slashes and see if that helps:

( cd "D:/third party components/arpack96/ARPACK/BLAS"; "D:/third party components/arpack96/ARPACK/make" clean )

Alternatively, you can escape the backslashes by doubling them.