Re: Building in a separate directory

[Adrian Robert]

On May 27, 2005, at 9:34 AM, David Lázaro Saz wrote:

> On 27/05/2005, at 13:54, Nicola Pero wrote:
>
> > The make syntax uses spaces to separate filenames in list of targets 
> > or
> > requisites, or everywhere really ... it's a basic design decision in 
> > the
> > make syntax.
>
> Thanks for the explanation.  This also explains why Apple developed a 
> completely new build system for Xcode (xcodebuild).  I've tried 
> compiling a Hello World/Hello World.c in my usual (separate) build 
> directory and everything worked.

BTW, first they moved to JAM, then they internalized JAM's code into 
Xcode so it's not invoked as a separate process.  It's possible that 
JAM  is able to handle spaces, though maybe Apple had to modify it for 
this.