* Peter Simons wrote on Sun, May 18, 2008 at 01:29:47PM CEST: > Bob Proulx writes: > > > This leads to 'make' not being designed to handle filenames with > > whitespace and of course automake tries to produce portable make > > configurations. > > I don't know what limitation you refer to. Can you please explain how > make's design causes these problems?
Well, at least white space in targets and dependencies is forbidden with make. This means that, if `pwd` contains white space, you must not invoke configure using an absolute path. But as I said, there are more limitations in git Automake (and even more in 1.10). Cheers, Ralf