tags 12657 + wontfix close 12657 thanks On 10/15/2012 09:31 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: > On 2012-10-15 15:30 +0300, Hristo Venev wrote: >> Consider the following example: >> bin_PROGRAMS = prog >> prog_SOURCES = "a file.c" "another file.c" >> >> This doesn't work and nor does any other way I have thought of. > > Nope, it does not. Unfortunately, make really does not work properly > with spaces in filenames, so Automake isn't going to be able to do > anything to help. See §28.4 "Limitations on File Names" in the Automake > manual: > > > https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Limitations-on-File-Names > > in particular: > > Source and installation file names like main.c are limited even > further: they should conform to the POSIX/XOPEN rules described above > > where the "POSIX/XOPEN rules" are described thusly: > > Portable packages should limit themselves to POSIX file names. These > can contain ASCII letters and digits, ‘_’, ‘.’, and ‘-’. File names > consist of components separated by ‘/’. File name components cannot > begin with ‘-’. > As Nick have correctly explained (BTW: thanks Nick for yet another quick and detailed answer!), this Automake/make limitation is too much ingrained to be removed or even tackled. Thus I'm marling this report as "won't fix", and closing it.
Regards, Stefano
