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Makefiles have some glaring issues that can't be easily fixed. The big one is that they break if there are spaces in file or directory names. Sure, you can ar

by wmil 11y ago

Makefiles have some glaring issues that can't be easily fixed. The big one is that they break if there are spaces in file or directory names. Sure, you can argue spaces are bad practice. But they are common on OS X and windows. It's a little silly to use a build system that doesn't support them.

k__ 11y ago
Ah, didn't know that.
DiabloD3 11y ago
That isn't entirely true. It depends entirely on how you quote your filenames. But yes, historically, there's a lot of broken Makefiles that way.