Re: Implicit pattern rules do not match files with spaces in their names [resend]

On 06/08/2011 01:49 PM, Paul Smith wrote: GNU make does not support files containing whitespace (in fact no POSIX make does: make defines whitespace to be a separator and does not define any way to escape whitespace). Some things work, "by accident"; many do not. Thanks for the explanation. P

Implicit pattern rules do not match files with spaces in their names [resend]

This is with GNU Make 3.81. I originally posted this as a question on Stack Overflow, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6233574/ According to the docs (10.5.1), % in a pattern rule matches "any nonempty substring". But it seems to actually match some subset of that, in particular, ones that d