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Re: dealing with whitespaces


From: Paul Smith
Subject: Re: dealing with whitespaces
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:09:32 -0500

On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 16:23 +0000, Eduardo Suarez-Santana wrote:
> I can't get the last one to work. What's wrong with the white space?

The short answer is, GNU make does not support pathnames containing
whitespace.  It can be made to work in certain very limited situations,
mostly by accident, but it does not work in general.

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