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RE: win32 paths with spaces
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jgrant |
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RE: win32 paths with spaces |
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Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:39:00 -0000 |
Hi Paul
> j> If the quotes remained in the string (instead of being
> removed when
> j> parsed as it seems at present)
>
> Make will never remove any quotes from any variable value.
>
> Make knows about exactly _TWO_ special characters: "$", and
> "\" but only when appearing as the last character on the
> line. That's it. Every other character is left alone and
> means nothing to make.
>
>
> If someone can come up with a comprehensive suggestion, that
> considers issues like backward compatibility, how variable
> values will be expanded, how functions like wildcard, word,
> foreach, call, eval, etc. will work, cross-platform
> compatibility, shell invocation, etc. then I'm quite willing
> to listen. But, I've spent at least a few minutes
> considering these issues already and I don't see any
> realistic way to solve this with quoting.
Perhaps if an extra argument was, e.g. "make --quoted-paths" this could
change from the standard functionality and support paths with quotes and
spaces as a single item" ? Would gnu make maintainers support this?
If you think this is unsuitable; which way of approaching the problem of
supporting paths with spaces do you think would be more appropriate?
Kind regards
Jonathan
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