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

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

On Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:38:06 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:

The make utility has no support for paths with spaces.

 
Looks like you're right.

>
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.
make: *** [<builtin>: foo bar] Error 1
$

I'm using GNU Make 4.3.

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