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In the early 2k's I discovered that it was impossible to quote or escape spaces in filepaths in a makefile. I naively reported it to the Make maintainer as a b

In the early 2k's I discovered that it was impossible to quote or escape spaces in filepaths in a makefile. I naively reported it to the Make maintainer as a bug. The maintainer responded by saying, basically, that the behavior was deeply baked in and was not going to change.

enriquto 6y ago
This is a nice feature of make. People who put spaces on filenames are justly punished by not being given the goodness of make.
- mehrdadn 6y ago
  I can't tell if you're being sarcastic but this can result in innocent users who don't even know this fact to suddenly overwrite or wipe their files when trying to build someone's project.
  - enriquto 6y ago
    Nobody is innocent if they have filenames with spaces in their systems! /s