"Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ralf> Hi, Ralf> Simple question: Does automake support filenames containing blanks?
I guess nobody really bothered because Make itself uses blanks as filename separators. '\ ' seems to be a GNU extension, does anybody knows of another implementation where it works? (Do not misread this as an objection, I'm just curious to know where it can work.)
The nature of Bourne compliant shells and IFS won't allow it to work AFAIK. Yes, it is possible to have spaces in file names. The work required based on assumptions of tools that they don't isn't worth trying to fix, IMO. The workaround is, don't use file names with spaces.
Earnie.
