Re: Bug: make fails to execute .BAT files with space in the path, with SHELL=cmd.exe

[Erik Carstensen]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:40 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

Alas, this won't help you for long, because the next release of Make
will not invoke cmd.exe just because the command line has quotes.
Such commands are also short-circuited in the development sources.

Oh. This seems to change make behaviour in a non-backward-compatible way when one argument has a trailing backslash. E.g.:

"foo.exe" bar\ baz

with 3.82, foo gets two arguments; with master it gets one.

(this is not a problem for my use case; I just wanted to check if this was intended. I can't find it mentioned in NEWS)