Peter Simons wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > > This is a documented limitation. See the following reference. > > > > > http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/limitations-on-file-names.html#limitations-on-file-names > > I am sorry, but that page doesn't seem to mention this problem at all.
Hmm... I kept seeing "newline" and reading in my head "whitespace". My bad. Sorry about that. I was definitely wrong there. > > Using whitespace in filenames has long been an issue for Unix tools > > in general because whitespace is used as an input field separator. > > I am sorry, but I have to disagree. Unix tools have no trouble > whatsoever with blanks in file names -- it's humans who have trouble > using them because we tend to forget the necessary quoting. The 'make' tool is a good example of a classic Unix tool and it does indeed have a problem with whitespace in the filename. > > 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? Unix make can't handle spaces in filenames. It always splits upon spaces. Bob
