Re: make target / dependency names with spaces

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.make.windows
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> From: Cheri Kaylor <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:27:13 +0000
> 
> Since file and directory names with spaces are supported by Windows

They are supported on other platforms as well.

> how do you incorporate such a file name as either a target or dependency?

You can't.  The space is a delimiter in targets and dependencies.

As a work-around (which is generally unavailable to other platforms),
you can use the short 8+3 aliases of such file names.  "dir /x" will
show them to you.
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