Re: directory names with blanks break automake builds

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Peter Simons wrote on Sun, May 18, 2008 at 01:29:47PM CEST:
> Bob Proulx writes:
> 
>  > This leads to 'make' not being designed to handle filenames with
>  > whitespace and of course automake tries to produce portable make
>  > configurations.
> 
> I don't know what limitation you refer to. Can you please explain how
> make's design causes these problems?

Well, at least white space in targets and dependencies is forbidden with
make.  This means that, if `pwd` contains white space, you must not
invoke configure using an absolute path.

But as I said, there are more limitations in git Automake (and even more
in 1.10).

Cheers,
Ralf