Bob Proulx writes:
> Unix make can't handle spaces in filenames. It always splits upon
> spaces.
You are right.
Take care,
Peter
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 prob
Ralf Wildenhues writes:
>> 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.
I see, thank you for the clarification. As far as I'm concerned, this
problem is
* 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\
Ralf Wildenhues writes:
>> 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.
Whitespace can be quoted with '\'. At least in GNU Make, the following
* 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
Hi Peter,
* Peter Simons wrote on Sat, May 17, 2008 at 06:07:39PM CEST:
> I just ran across an interesting problem with automake 1.10. Just unpack
> any other build into a directory called, say "/tmp/test automake", and
> run it. In my particular case, the makefiles failed to call the local
> copy
Bob Proulx writes:
>> [Unpack] any other build into a directory called, say "/tmp/test
>> automake", and run it. In my particular case, the makefiles failed
>> to call the local copy of install-sh because of the blank.
>
> This is a documented limitation. See the following reference.
>
>
Peter Simons wrote:
> I just ran across an interesting problem with automake 1.10. Just unpack
> any other build into a directory called, say "/tmp/test automake", and
> run it. In my particular case, the makefiles failed to call the local
> copy of install-sh because of the blank. I checked my con
Hi,
I just ran across an interesting problem with automake 1.10. Just unpack
any other build into a directory called, say "/tmp/test automake", and
run it. In my particular case, the makefiles failed to call the local
copy of install-sh because of the blank. I checked my configure.ac
script and Ma
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