Re: mingw make problem

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:58:00 -0400
> From: "William A. Hoffman" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Just noticed:
> 
>  static char sh_chars_sh[]  = "#;\"*?[]&|<>(){}$`^";
> 
> Note the \"  This is in the #ifdef __MSDOS__ section which I assume
> is on for mingw.

No, MinGW picks up the "#elif defined (WINDOWS32)" section.

> Why is " considered a shell character?

Please note that it is considered a shell character on _all_ systems
when a Unixy shell is invoked.  I believe the reason is that a Posix
shell removes the quotes from the command line, and has other special
processing inside a quoted argument.  So Make invokes the shell, to
avoid knowing too much about this processing.