Here's an example makefile that doesn't do what I want.
name := I have a space/x
worse:
@echo input is $(name)
@echo output is $(notdir $(name))
# I see
# input is I have a space/x
# output is I have a x
# But I wish I'd have seen
# input is I have a space/x
# output is x
At first, I thought this behavior was a bug, but then I realized that
it's working exactly as specified: notdir treats its argument as a
_whitespace-separated_ list of file names. That makes it difficult to
deal with file names that themselves contains spaces. Is there a way
to do it?
--
... at a contemporary beefsteak it is unusual for a man to do
away with more than six pounds of meat and thirty glasses of
beer.
-- Joseph Mitchell
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