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[bug #712] GNU make can't handle spaces in pathnames
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Mark K Cowan |
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[bug #712] GNU make can't handle spaces in pathnames |
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Mon, 20 Apr 2015 05:48:35 +0000 |
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Follow-up Comment #15, bug #712 (project make):
Would it be possible to have a special target .NULL_DELIMITED_LISTS to tell
Make to use the null character as the list separator instead of whitespace?
That way we keep 100% backward compatability and also provide a simple way to
support whitespace in filenames. This would also allow more complex
wildcard-ing such as:
.NULL_DELIMITED_LISTS
...
sources=$(shell find -name '*.in' {many predicates} -print0)
targets=$(sources:%.in=%.out)
...
%.out: %.in
some-command < $^ > $@
Make would also automatically escape the whitespace in variables when building
shell commands.
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