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Re: Filenames containing blanks
Hi,
Alexandre Duret-Lutz <aduret@src.lip6.fr> writes:
>>>> "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
I think it'd be OK to have filenames with spaces in GNUmakefile.am.
In that case, the generated rules have to be space-clean. I think
it's worthwhile to consider Ralf's patch after he addresses some of my
comments.
- Hari
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Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ harinath@cs.umn.edu