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Re: Implicit pattern rules do not match files with spaces in their names


From: Anthony DeRobertis
Subject: Re: Implicit pattern rules do not match files with spaces in their names [resend]
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:43:49 -0400
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On 06/08/2011 01:49 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
GNU make does not support files containing whitespace (in fact no POSIX
make does: make defines whitespace to be a separator and does not define
any way to escape whitespace).  Some things work, "by accident"; many do
not.

Thanks for the explanation.

Please consider my report a feature request then, to make spaces work there, "by accident", at least if that accident is easy to implement.



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