On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 16:35 -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > This is with GNU Make 3.81. I originally posted this as a question on > Stack Overflow, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6233574/ > > According to the docs (10.5.1), % in a pattern rule matches "any > nonempty substring". But it seems to actually match some subset of that, > in particular, ones that does not contain spaces.
GNU make does not support files containing whitespace (in fact no POSIX make does: make defines whitespace to be a separator and does not define any way to escape whitespace). Some things work, "by accident"; many do not. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
