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Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special c
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Frank Heckenbach |
Subject: |
Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths) |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Feb 2014 22:19:52 +0100 |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:41:36 +0100
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > From: Frank Heckenbach <address@hidden>
> >
> > > I think we will need to provide a quoting function, something like a
> > > wrapper for the gnulib's quotearg module,
> >
> > I agree. Though as discussed elsewhere, I'd prefer for make to
> > support full shell-style quoting, thus $(quote) could just add ''
> > and escape embedded ' characters.
>
> When Make produces file names, like in a call to $wildcard, it should
> apply quoting automatically, I think. But we will still need a
> function for the users to quote those parts of the commands which need
> quoting. This is for those cases where the string didn't come from
> Make, but was produced by some string manipulation, where Make cannot
> possibly track all the quotes that get added or removed.
Or from an environment/command line variable where make cannot know
its intention when it gets it.
I think we agree here.
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), (continued)
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths),
Frank Heckenbach <=
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/02/22
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/22
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/02/23
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/24
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/02/24
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), David A. Wheeler, 2014/02/24
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/02/24
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Paul Smith, 2014/02/23
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/02/23
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Tim Murphy, 2014/02/24