Re: Filenames containing blanks

[Guido Draheim]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> > > > "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
>  Ralf> Hi,
>  Ralf> Simple question: Does automake support filenames containing blanks?
>
> I guess nobody really bothered because Make itself uses blanks
> as filename separators.  '\ ' seems to be a GNU extension, does
> anybody knows of another implementation where it works?  (Do not
> misread this as an objection, I'm just curious to know where it
> can work.)

The '\ 's are not seen by make, they are interpreted by the shell
that is invoked in the make rule executions, right? And for data,
there is rarely the occasion it occurs in a make rule header...

hmmm,
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