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Re: Quoted file names matching a pattern?
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Ken Smith |
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Re: Quoted file names matching a pattern? |
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Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:02:58 -0400 |
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On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 01:36:57PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> %% Ken Smith <address@hidden> writes:
>
> ks> When I want to deal with strings in gmake which may have
> ks> whitespace, I generally use $(subst) to replace the whitespace
> ks> with some other non-whitespace token which I can parse out at the
> ks> last minute just before I need to use it in its original form.
>
> This is the other option of course.
>
> The problem is that make won't know about this, so you end up having to
> create a lot of temporary files to be sure that the timestamps are
> correct.
The above method is the one I apply to strings in general when I must
preserve whitespace which includes but isn't exclusive to filenames.
I think I understand what you mean about timestamps but could you
elaborate? Do you see the problem you mention in the example I sent?
Ken Smith
>
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