Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths

(I'll respond to the rest of your email shortly).

The intent is that variable names are not supposed to be able to contain
whitespace; unfortunately there are ways around this rule at the moment
as you note.

On Sat, 2014-02-22 at 21:41 +0100, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
> $[x]

The "missing separator" part is correct, since this expands to just "x]"
which is not a valid makefile, but definitely the "did you mean TAB"
part is busted.

Please file a bug on Savannah.