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RE: win32 paths with spaces
From: |
Paul D. Smith |
Subject: |
RE: win32 paths with spaces |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Nov 2003 08:19:01 -0500 |
%% address@hidden writes:
j> Are there any plans for future support of filenames with spaces?
No solid plans. I have an idea on how to do it but it could cause
incompatibilities in some areas.
The problem is that it's virtually impossible to do this using a
traditional escape mechanism. When you consider all the ways variable
values are interpreted, get their values, all the different make
functions, etc. it's a daunting situation. Fundamentally, the entire
syntax of make (not just GNU make: even the POSIX standard for make) is
"word based" and is not friendly to spaces inside a filename.
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- win32 paths with spaces, jgrant, 2003/11/27
- Re: win32 paths with spaces, Paul D. Smith, 2003/11/27
- Re: win32 paths with spaces, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/11/27
- Re: win32 paths with spaces, Paul D. Smith, 2003/11/27
- Re: win32 paths with spaces, Earnie Boyd, 2003/11/27
- Re: win32 paths with spaces, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/11/27
- Re: win32 paths with spaces, Greg Chicares, 2003/11/28
- Re: win32 paths with spaces, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/11/30
- Re: win32 paths with spaces, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/11/27
RE: win32 paths with spaces, jgrant, 2003/11/28
RE: win32 paths with spaces, jgrant, 2003/11/30