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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2024 21:29:24 -0700
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
> On Tue, 03 Sep 2024 17:19:17 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>>> I have some Makefiles with spaces in the dependency names, of the form:
>>>
>>>     target\ name\ with\ space : source\ name\ with\ space
>> 
>> I'd be interested in knowing how you do that.
>> 
>> $ cat Makefile foo\ bar: foo\ bar.c
>> $ make cc     foo bar.c   -o foo bar
>> cc: fatal error: input file ‘foo’ is the same as output file
>> compilation terminated.
>
> The Makefiles in question are not using the default build rules for C 
> code: they are building other things, with explicit use of the "$<" and 
> "$@" variable substitutions.

I'd still be interested in seeing an example.  In a quick experiment,
I wasn't able to get GNU Make to recognize the existence of a file named
"foo bar".

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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