Re: make fails when quote marks are encountered

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:02:16 -0700
> From: "Daniel Mendyke" <address@hidden>
> 
> 
> My version of 'make' is:
> 
>     c:\tmp$ make -v
>     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$

Could you please tell where (from what site) did you get this port of
Make?

> I'm not greatly happy with developing under Windows because of problems
> like this.  I tried building a copy of 'make' following the suggestion 
> earlier but the batch file could not find 'cl.exe'.  I'm assuming that's
> a linker.

No, it's the Microsoft C compiler.

Please read the file README.W32, it explains that to build Make with
GCC, you need to invoke build_w32.bat like this:

         build_w32 gcc