Re: make target / dependency names with spaces

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.make.windows
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:48:41 -0400
> From: Chris Sutcliffe <[email protected]>
> 
> > Since file and directory names with spaces are supported by Windows, how do
> > you incorporate such a file name as either a target or dependency?
> >
> > I've tried single and double quoutes, but they don't seem to work.
> 
> Try 'escaping' them, for example:
> 
> some program name.exe
> 
> would be:
> 
> some\ program\ name.exe

This will only work in the commands (where simple quoting will also
work), but not in targets and dependencies, which is what the OP
wants.
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