Question: I got this error while (re)building, using cygwin make.exe version :3.81.

```
Error : *** target pattern contains no `%'.

```

Answer: 
This error is due to a presence of a `":"`. Therefore it no longer supports windows paths. 
You need to download version 3.80 and replace the `make.exe` in the `\bin` directory.

Apparently it needs `cygintl12.dll` too.
I got the same error when trying to build a project on Linux or OSX, that was previously built on a Windows machine and had some **.o.d** files hanging around in the output folder. 

Once I manually deleted the **.o.d** files the problem was resolved. Apparently the "Clean" command of my IDE (CodeLite in this case) wasn't deleting the **.o.d** files.