* Peter Simons wrote on Sun, May 18, 2008 at 02:36:58PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues writes:
>
> > Well, at least white space in targets and dependencies is forbidden
> > with make.
>
> Whitespace can be quoted with '\'. At least in GNU Make, the following
> snippet works just fine:
>
> | output\ file : input\ file
> | cp "$<" "$@"
> |
> | input\ file:
> | date >"$@"
This really is GNU make-specific.
> There probably are some make implementations that will not understand
> the escape syntax, but personally I'd refer to that as a bug, not as a
> design problem.
Well, Posix doesn't require the above to work, so really I view this as
a GNU extension.
> Anyhow, Automake aims to work with all make
> implementations, so it must accommodate broken makes somehow. It's an
> unpleasant situation.
Yep.
> The problem I'm hitting is that ${srcdir} contains a blank, so the path
> to 'install-sh' contains a blank too:
I think that's one of the remaining unfixed problems, unfortunately.
Cheers,
Ralf
