>>> "gd" == Guido Draheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
gd> Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: >>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
