Re: bin/42658: make(1) .include not properly handling directories with spaces in name

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/42658; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/42658: make(1) .include not properly handling directories with 
spaces in name
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:23:58 +0000

 On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:50:00AM +0000, gcw%primenet.com.au@localhost wrote:
 > >Number:         42658
 > >Category:       bin
 > >Synopsis:       make in a directory with spaces prints error with .include
 
 Due to the way make works (treating a space as a separator, and having
 no general method of escaping special characters) it really doesn't like 
 spaces in any filenames (it won't like $ either).
 
 Athough it might be thought that the $pwd value wouldn't matter that
 much, it isn't really surprising that the absolute path gets treated
 as space terminated/separated somewhere.
 
 So this is really unlikely to be fixable (or at least you will find
 more problems further on).
 
        David
 
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