CVS breaks Makefile (pattern contains no "%" ??)

[will trillich <will@serensoft.com>]

i do "h2xs -AXn MyModule" to start out a new perl module, and i get

-rw-r--r--    1 will     serensof      119 Jul 11 16:42 Changes
-rw-r--r--    1 will     serensof       47 Jul 11 16:42 MANIFEST
-rw-r--r--    1 will     serensof      231 Jul 11 16:42 Makefile.PL
-rw-r--r--    1 will     serensof    44237 Jul 11 16:42 MyModule.pm
-rw-r--r--    1 will     serensof      651 Jul 11 16:42 test.pl

i can then

	perl Makefile.PL
	make
	make test
	make install

and all is well.

--

BUT when i get those SAME EXACT FILES via

	cvs -d /yada/yada checkout myVeryOwnProject

and then try

	$ cd myVeryOwnProject
	$ perl Makefile.PL 
	Writing Makefile for MyModule
	$ make
	Makefile:430: *** target pattern contains no `%'.  Stop.

i've done a diff on the two resulting "Makefile"s and there's
lots, lots, lots. under RCS, all went well, under CVS, "make" is
broken somehow.

(line 430 is "
tardist : $(DISTVNAME).tar$(SUFFIX)
" if it's relevant)

what did i miss, here?

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