Re: Incorrect quoting of """" """" in master branch, with SHELL=cmd.exe

[Erik Carstensen]

On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

 

You should use a backslash to produce a literal quote that should be
passed to a program.  That's what the Microsoft startup code provides
as the way to get quote characters into programs.

Thanks!  I thought I had tried that and failed, but it does seem to work.

 

If you do know that cmd.exe will be invoked, you can either double the
quotes, as the cmd.exe documentation describes, or us the ^ character
to escape the quotes.

I cannot make that work, ^ does not seem to escape double quotes.

 

Please show that use case, or something similar.  I don't immediately
understand why recursive invocation means you'd need to quote a file
name twice.  E.g., why not use this instead:

SHELL=cmd.exe
default:
        $(MAKE) -f foo.mk x="a b"

 

The problem is that foo.mk will use $(x) directly in shell invocations. Furthermore, foo.mk is provided by the user, and I don't want to ask my users to worry about quoting. It is unnatural to use $(x) outside a shell invocation in this case.

But these details are not so relevant, as \" indeed would solve this use case.