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

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 16:35 -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> This is with GNU Make 3.81. I originally posted this as a question on 
> Stack Overflow, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6233574/
> 
> According to the docs (10.5.1), % in a pattern rule matches "any 
> nonempty substring". But it seems to actually match some subset of that, 
> in particular, ones that does not contain spaces.

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.