Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux

On Tue, 03 Sep 2024 17:19:17 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>

I have some Makefiles with spaces in the dependency names, of the form:
>
    target\ name\ with\ space : source\ name\ with\ space

 
I'd be interested in knowing how you do that.
 
$ cat Makefile foo\ bar: foo\ bar.c
$ make cc     foo bar.c   -o foo bar
cc: fatal error: input file ‘foo’ is the same as output file
compilation terminated.

The Makefiles in question are not using the default build rules for C
code: they are building other things, with explicit use of the "$<" and
"$@" variable substitutions.