Re: [bug #41246] Allow to switch shell batch mode at runtime instead of build time

[Mike Hommey]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:37:47AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:14:32 +0000
> > From: Mike Hommey <address@hidden>
> > 
> > This is a different approach to the problem, as suggested by Paul: this
> > triggers batch mode shell when there are double quotes in the recipe.
> 
> This cannot be automatic, as we have deliberately made the double
> quotes not special for Windows shells.

You mean cmd.exe? The patch only uses batch mode shell when there are
double quotes *and* the shell is unixy (so, not cmd.exe)

> So please make this
> conditional on some Make option (sorry, I didn't yet have time to look
> at the patch).

An option as command line argument, or as a special target as the
original patch did?

Mike