%% Boris Kolpackov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
bk> "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> * A new method for encoding strings would need to be found. Maybe
>> something like $[...] where "..." would be encoded. This part is
>> tricky and needs to be considered carefully.
bk> I
"Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * A new method for encoding strings would need to be found. Maybe
> something like $[...] where "..." would be encoded. This part is
> tricky and needs to be considered carefully.
Is this really necessary? Can't we just say that if someone
%% Fabio Alemagna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
fa> Couldn't it be done so that instead of using spaces, as word
fa> delimiters, make used NUL chars?
No, because NUL characters delimit the end of strings. You must
understand that make is just a string manipulator. It doesn't really
have a sep
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 08:50:33 -0500, Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The short answer is that GNU make doesn't support filenames with spaces
> in them.
>
> The slightly longer answer is that GNU make uses whitespace as a word
> delimiter, and there is NO reliable way to quote whitespace
