Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:30:28 +0200 From: Pascal Schmid <pascal@lechindianer.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: kuuse@redantigua.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD Make question Message-ID: <52603AD4.7040405@lechindianer.de> In-Reply-To: <21.DC.19454.E1830625@cdptpa-oedge03> References: <21.DC.19454.E1830625@cdptpa-oedge03>
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On 10/17/2013 09:18 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> I'm trying to write a Makefile for FreeBSD Make (not GNU Make), with target
>> names containg spaces.
>> Example:
>
>> MY_TARGET=/home/joe/directory name with spaces/hello.c
>> ${MY_TARGET}:
> @echo ${.TARGET}
>
>> The output is truncated to '/home/joe/directory'
>> Is there any possible way to escape this properly?
>> I have read all the documentation I could find, and tried several ways
>> solving this problem, using quotes, escapes, substitutions.
>> The output is the same if as use sh, bash, or tcsh, so it isn't shell
>> related.
>> Are spaces simply not possible to use in target names?
>
>> If I'm on the wrong list, or someone could point me into any direction to
>> solve this, I would gladly appreciate any hints.
>
>> Best Regards,
>> Johan
>
> I believe that in (quasi-)Unix in general, including FreeBSD and Linux,
> you use backslash to escape an embedded space in directory or file names.
>
> Backslash causes the following character to be interpreted as an ordinary
> character with no special meaning.
>
> Try
>
> MY_TARGET=/home/joe/directory\ name\ with\ spaces/hello.c
>
> Tom
>
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Have you tried different quotes? "'" does not have the same effect as "`" (backtick).
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