Re: VPATH for directories with spaces

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Oleg V. Zhilin" <address@hidden> writes:

  ovz> I'm currently doing a porting of one of my Windows projects for
  ovz> Linux. It is C++ project. This project's sources are structured
  ovz> to directories, that have blanks in their names.  Since there're
  ovz> quite a few source files there I don't want to enumerate them all
  ovz> explicitly, but to make use of VPATH variable in GNU Make
  ovz> makefile.

The short answer is that GNU make does not handle filenames containing
spaces.  You will have to either rename your directories, or use a
different build tool than make.

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