How to deal with spaces within target path?

%% anachmanhotmail.com writes:

  a> This is GNU Make 3.80 on Mac OSX. I'm running into
a problem where
  a> spaces in a target name within the makefile are
causing it to be
  a> interpreted as separate targets. Using the typical
solution of
  a> putting quotes around the path doesn't seem to work
within the
  a> makefile. Does anyone know of a way to specify that
spaces should
  a> be treated as part of the path name? Here is the
offending line in
  a> the makefile: $%.N.cln : %.asm $;
$

In general there's really no completely bullet-proof way to
use
pathnames with whitespace in them.  Your best bet is to
avoid them
altogether.


However, in some situations you can escape whitespace with a
backslash.

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