Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths

[Paul Smith]

(I'll respond to the rest of your email shortly).

The intent is that variable names are not supposed to be able to contain
whitespace; unfortunately there are ways around this rule at the moment
as you note.

On Sat, 2014-02-22 at 21:41 +0100, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
> $[x]

The "missing separator" part is correct, since this expands to just "x]"
which is not a valid makefile, but definitely the "did you mean TAB"
part is busted.

Please file a bug on Savannah.