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Subject: Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 15:57:24 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 4 Sep 2024 08:41:03 -0700
John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> boringly babbled:
>On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 23:15:46 -0000 (UTC)
>Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> wrote:
>
>> The make utility has no support for paths with spaces.
>> 
>> Use of make is a great repellant against spaces in names.
>> 
>> If a make variable contains spaces, there is no way to quote it within
>> make.  There is no way to express a prerequisite or target name with
>> spaces. GNU Make text processing constructs like $(foreach ...)
>> don't deal with spaces; there is no way for them to identify items
>> that contain spaces.
>
>If the make utility has no provisions for coping with a subset of legal
>filenames, that would seem to be a deficiency in make.

Given 99.99% of make use cases are to build binaries from source code and
no sane person would put spaces in the filenames of either, I doubt the
developers of make or its users could care less.