Re: make fails when quote marks are encountered

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:24:48 -0700
> From: "Daniel Mendyke" <address@hidden>
> 
> I'm running windows XP with Gnu make 3.8.1 
> 
>     C:\tmp$ make --version
>     GNU Make 3.81
>     Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>     This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
>     There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
>     PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> 
>     This program built for i686-pc-mingw32
> 
>     C:\tmp$

Same here, almost:

    GNU Make 3.81
    Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
    There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
    PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

    This program built for Windows32

Where did you get the binary of Make?  I built mine myself from the
sources, using the build_w32.bat batch file and the MinGW GCC
compiler.

> If my Makefile contains quoted values it ends with an error message,
> if I remove the quotes the Makefile builds correctly.  The following 
> examples illustrate the problem.  Note that 'main.cc' is an error-free
> C++ source file in 'c:\tmp'.
> 
> Example #1: ---------------------------------
> 
>     C:\tmp$ cat Makefile
> 
>     test:   main.cc
>             g++ -o sample main.cc  -I"c:\tmp"
> 
>     C:\tmp$ make
>     g++ -o sample main.cc  -I"c:\tmp"
>     g++: main.cc: No such file or directory
>     g++: no input files
>     make: *** [test] Error 1

I cannot reproduce this with my copy of Make 3.81: it works correctly
both with and without the quotes.

How about if you build Make yourself, like I did, and see if that
makes the problem go away?

> Can anyone suggest reasons why make is failing?

Some snafu in quoting the quote characters when g++ is invoked via
CreateProcess, I presume.  But since it works for me, I cannot even
try debugging it.

Is it possible that you are using the MSYS port of Make?  If so,
don't: it is not intended to be used except for MSYS work.