Re: automake EXTRA_DIST and filename spaces...

[John Ratliff]

Alan D. Salewski wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 04:28:05PM -0500, John Ratliff spake thus:
>   
> > How can I add a file to the EXTRA_DIST variable that has spaces?
> >     
>
> Hi John,
>
> File names with spaces in them cannot be tracked directly in EXTRA_DIST
> because the values in the list become 'make' prerequisites; file names
> with spaces cannot be used as 'make' prerequisites (even with GNU make)
> because of the Makefile syntax.
>
> As a suboptimal workaround, you could put the files that contain spaces
> in their names in a subdirectory (which does not have spaces in its
> name), and then supply that subdirectory name to EXTRA_DIST, instead.
>   
That's a good enough compromise for me. Thanks.

--John Ratliff