%% Eric Hanchrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: eh> At first, I thought this behavior was a bug, but then I realized eh> that it's working exactly as specified: notdir treats its argument eh> as a _whitespace-separated_ list of file names. That makes it eh> difficult to deal with file names that themselves contains spaces. eh> Is there a way to do it?
The short answer is no, there's no easy way to deal with file names containing whitespace. This is fundamental to the definition of make, really: make looks like it deals with files but really, internally, it mainly deals with strings. It has to slice and dice those strings all over the place, and it uses whitespace as a word delimiter almost everywhere. Changing this would be a HUGE undertaking. There is a Savannah bug on this: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=712 There have been some discussions on possible ways to resolve this without wholesale rewriting of make internals, but so far no code has been written. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
