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Re: Filenames containing blanks
>>> "gd" == Guido Draheim <guidod-2003-@gmx.de> writes:
gd> Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
>>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de> writes:
Ralf> Hi,
Ralf> Simple question: Does automake support filenames containing blanks?
>> I guess nobody really bothered because Make itself uses blanks
>> as filename separators. '\ ' seems to be a GNU extension, does
>> anybody knows of another implementation where it works? (Do not
>> misread this as an objection, I'm just curious to know where it
>> can work.)
gd> The '\ 's are not seen by make, they are interpreted by the shell
gd> that is invoked in the make rule executions, right? And for data,
gd> there is rarely the occasion it occurs in a make rule header...
$(data_DATA) is a dependency of all, check, install, and
distdir, in case data file need to be built. So it matters.
Try
FOO = f\ 1
all: $(FOO)
and compare
% make # GNU make
make: *** No rule to make target `f 1', needed by `all'. Stop.
% pmake # NetBSD make
make: don't know how to make f\. Stop
% fmake # FreeBSD make
make: don't know how to make f\. Stop
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz