Re: Environment variables in makefiles with DOS

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 10:07 +0100, Graham Labdon wrote:
> Hi 
> I have a makefile executed under Windows XP
> It has the line
> include $(SOURCE_ROOT)\$(NGC_VERSION)\deafult.mk

You should always use forward slashes in makefiles, not backslashes.
That won't solve your problem though.

> SOURCE_ROOT is an enviroment varaible set to C:\NGC\Source
> NGC_VERSION is an environment variable set to Main Line
> 
> When the makefile is run I get an error saying tha the file 
> C:\NGC\Source\Main cannot be found
> Obviously I want to include file C:\NGC\Source\Main Line\default.mk
> 
> Can any please tell me the way to achive this

You can't use pathnames containing whitespace in GNU make, in general.
There are a few very limited situations where it can be made to work,
but this is not one of them.

You'll have to rename your directory.

Another hack is to use the 8.3 version of the filename, but this is
unreliable at best.

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Yeesh.

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