Re: Implicit pattern rules do not match files with spaces in their names [resend]

Hi, I came across this issue some time, had no choice but lurk into make sources and hack the implicit rules code. I submitted a patch: https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?func=detailitem&item_id=7213 It can break backward compatibility on Windows/Dos/OS2 systems as Paul suggested in his comment du

Re: Implicit pattern rules do not match files with spaces in their names [resend]

On 06/08/2011 01:49 PM, Paul Smith wrote: 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. Thanks for the explanation. P

Re: Implicit pattern rules do not match files with spaces in their names [resend]

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 se

Implicit pattern rules do not match files with spaces in their names [resend]

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 d