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Hayd...@interwoven.com25 Aug 1999 15:28 
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Subject:[jamming] file/directory names with whitespace
From:Laur...@perforce.com (Laur@perforce.com)
Date:08/25/1999 04:34:40 PM
List:com.perforce.jamming

Hayden Ridenour writes:

While trying to build the latest version of Jam/MR from the sources, I've encountered the problem that -I<path> expansions of paths with a space become -I<first-part> -I<second-part>.

When jam parses a Jamfile, it treats spaces as delimiters. Thus, the assignment:

HDRS = /some/where/over the/rainbow ;

sets HDRS to a list of two values, "/some/where/over" and "the/rainbow". Luckily, you can use quotes to tell jam that a space is a data value, not a delimiter:

HDRS = '/some/where/over the/rainbow' ;

--Laura

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