[rkangel]

Or in your directory names both in your project, or in any parent folder. There's absolutely no reason why Windows shouldn't be able to call the folder "My Documents" but it broke a whole generation of builds that people tried to do in their home directory.

Spaces in filenames is a perfectly reasonable thing to want to do. They are supported on all three major platforms, but make just throws up it's hands and doesn't care. Yes, it is workable around, but it would be nice if it wasn't.

It's an annoyance with make overall, but if we're talking about the syntax specifically then yes I would call that a "major insurmountable problem".