Re: whitespace in filenames

[Brian Dessent]

Stephan Beal wrote:

> above-mentioned deep embediment of spaces in Make, it might still be
> useful in the context of rules:
> 
> foo:
>     command --arg1=$(quote $(SOME_VAL_WITH_SPACES)) --arg2 --arg3

But in that context you can just use --arg1="$(SOME_VAL_WITH_SPACES)"
because the shell does recognise quotes, and make just passes everything
in the recipe through sh -c.

Brian