X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4F51323E.5090406@cs.cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:49:02 -0800 From: Paul Allen Newell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.27) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/3.1.19 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com CC: "Newell, Paul" Subject: Re: [SOLVED:] Re: make producing basename error that can't be captured by "make &> make.out" References: <4F5035D0.9070502@cs.cmu.edu> <4F506393.1030502@gmail.com> <4F5067E0.5000203@cs.cmu.edu> <4F506DD1.8080901@gmail.com> <4F50718D.9030909@cs.cmu.edu> <4F50AEE9.2010203@cs.umass.edu> In-Reply-To: <4F50AEE9.2010203@cs.umass.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 3/2/2012 3:28 AM, Eliot Moss wrote: > . > > Generally, getting " quotes around it will do the trick. > Over the years I have managed to make many of my scripts > safe for file and directory names that have spaces. It's > a pain, but generally possible ... Eliot Moss > > Eliot: Thanks. I am usually very good about avoiding spaces so I can understand why my scripts aren't bullet-proofed. Luckily, I don't have that many, so a retrofit is doable. Paul -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple