Hi, Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>> "gd" == Guido Draheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > gd> Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > >>>>> "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.) > > gd> The '\ 's are not seen by make, they are interpreted by the shell > gd> that is invoked in the make rule executions, right? And for data, > gd> there is rarely the occasion it occurs in a make rule header... > > $(data_DATA) is a dependency of all, check, install, and > distdir, in case data file need to be built. So it matters. > > Try > > FOO = f\ 1 > all: $(FOO) > > and compare > > % make # GNU make > make: *** No rule to make target `f 1', needed by `all'. Stop. > % pmake # NetBSD make > make: don't know how to make f\. Stop > % fmake # FreeBSD make > make: don't know how to make f\. Stop I think it'd be OK to have filenames with spaces in GNUmakefile.am. In that case, the generated rules have to be space-clean. I think it's worthwhile to consider Ralf's patch after he addresses some of my comments. - Hari -- Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
