On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 07:32:42PM +0300, Angel Tsankov wrote: > > Quoted filenames won't help because make doesn't do quotes. > > > > Basically, it is very, very difficult, even impossible, to handle > > filenames containing whitespace using make. > > Well, "very, very difficult" does NOT mean impossible, right? So, if it is > possible to write a makefile to compile the .cpp files (some may contain > whitespace in their name) in a folder, I'll be glad to know how this is > done.
When I want to deal with strings in gmake which may have whitespace, I generally use $(subst) to replace the whitespace with some other non-whitespace token which I can parse out at the last minute just before I need to use it in its original form. Ken > Regards. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-make mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
