Re: win32 paths with spaces

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Earnie Boyd <address@hidden> writes:

  eb> If the quoted names where honored, only removing them for the
  eb> filesystem functions it should help.  So if the target or
  eb> dependency begins with a " then the search character becomes a "
  eb> instead of the whitespace.

I think you're greatly oversimplifying this.  Make doesn't know whether
the contents of a variable are file names, arguments, input to some
command, or anything else.  Just assuming that everything inside quotes
should be treated as a single word during make operations that work on
words (like all the make functions, etc.) would be a _gigantic_
backward-incompatibility.

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