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Re: make target / dependency names with spaces


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: make target / dependency names with spaces
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:59:16 +0300

> From: Cheri Kaylor <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:27:13 +0000
> 
> Since file and directory names with spaces are supported by Windows

They are supported on other platforms as well.

> how do you incorporate such a file name as either a target or dependency?

You can't.  The space is a delimiter in targets and dependencies.

As a work-around (which is generally unavailable to other platforms),
you can use the short 8+3 aliases of such file names.  "dir /x" will
show them to you.




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