Is there a way to get the GNU make command to accept blanks in a subdirectory name? make --directory="C:\AB CD\output" --makefile="C:\AB CD\my.makefile" I tried the double quotes (which seems to work for most other programs) but GCC make croaks with make: *** "C:\AB: No such file or directory. Stop. Thx in advance, travis2@us.ibm.com