Re: Handling '=' in a filename together with $(eval )

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, 2025-02-13 at 10:33 -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2025-02-13 at 16:24 +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > I'm aware of that trick.  However, I think it won't work for me,
> > since I don't hardcode the filenames in the Makefile, but get them
> > with
> > 
> >  $(shell find ...)
> > 
> > instead.
> 
> You can always use subst to handle this, like:
> 
>   $(subst =,$$(EQ),....)

This might require an extra eval, I'm not sure I didn't test it. 
Basically, my opinion is still:

> Note I don't really recommend any of this.  With the current
> limitations of make, as defined by POSIX, it's just very difficult to
> use filenames that contain special characters.  I recommend a "just
> don't do it" approach :).