severity 750391 wishlist retitle 750391 Document make does not play nicely with whitespace in file paths reassign 750391 make-doc-non-dfsg thanks
On Fri, Jun 13 2014, Ben Hildred wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@acm.org> wrote:
> I was aware of the quoting issues that makefiles have and you will
> notice that the testcase does not have whitespace int the targets or
> prerequisites.
And these variables should contain space separated entities,
which in this case is not true.
>
>>
>> You may try this:
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> %.out: %.in
>> cat "$<" > $@
>>
> this may or may not help after this bug is fixed, but it is irrelevant to
> the problem observed.
>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> make test\\\ file.out
>>
> this is wrong, too many backslashes.
But it works:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
__> cat makefile
%.out: %.in
cat "$<" > $@
__> make test\\\ file.out
cat "test file.in" > test\ file.out
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> there are two issues identified in the upstream report. the original issue
> was with automatic variables and whitespace, This is not directly related
> to my problem (yet). When It was re-titled the scope became so broad as to
> make here there be dragons look to be a specific navigation warning. the
> only thing remotely helpful in the upstream bugreport was a call to
> document the issue, which given the age of the bug should have been done
> years ago.
That is fair. This should be documented. I am marking this
report as a documentation request.
manoj
p,s, Also see:
http://www.cmcrossroads.com/article/gnu-make-meets-file-names-spaces-them
http://gnu-make.2324884.n4.nabble.com/make-target-dependency-names-with-spaces-td14057.html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9838384/can-gnu-make-handle-filenames-with-spaces
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