RE: can't get far if file has difficult name

[Martin Dorey]

> You didn't specify what errors you got when you had the parens in
there 

Here you go:

address@hidden:~/tmp/make-2006-11-30$ ls -l bracket*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 martind software 0 2006-11-30 16:44 bracket(
-rw-rw-r-- 1 martind software 0 2006-11-30 16:44 bracket()
address@hidden:~/tmp/make-2006-11-30$ make 'bracket()'.t
make: *** No rule to make target `bracket().t'.  Stop.
address@hidden:~/tmp/make-2006-11-30$ make 'bracket('.t
bla bla bla
make: bla: Command not found
make: *** [.bracket(.time] Error 127
address@hidden:~/tmp/make-2006-11-30$

Which is to say that I quoted them and got an error from make.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Smith [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 18:27
To: Martin Dorey
Cc: Jon Grant; address@hidden; Dan Jacobson
Subject: RE: can't get far if file has difficult name

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 16:52 -0800, Martin Dorey wrote:

> Works for me if I remove the two close-parentheses and replace the
white
> space with underscores.  Open-parenthesis fine, close-parenthesis bad.
> Weird.  Close-parenthesis is also bad with Debian sarge's make-3.80.

I suspect that has to do with the shell.  Although () are not special to
make, they are special to the shell, and make's builtin rules don't
quote their filename arguments (and neither did Dan's example).

You didn't specify what errors you got when you had the parens in there,
but in my tests if I have them (unquoted) I get an error from the shell,
not from make.