Re: toolchain/48534: bogus file names in source tree

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR toolchain/48534; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: toolchain/48534: bogus file names in source tree
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 04:45:17 +0000

 On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:30:00AM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
  >  > My point is that removing or renaming files just because they have
  >  > spaces in names is stupid. These are not nineties, spaces in file names
  >  > are common, and we ought to get used to that rather.
  >  
  >  Shall we also get used to white space in variable names?
 
 Sure, why not? :-) Make does it, after all...
 
 X=x
 SPACE=$(X:x= )
 FU$(SPACE)BAR=fubar
 
 all:
        @echo $(FU BAR)
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost