Re: Output quoting (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths)

Tim Murphy <[email protected]> Fri, 11 Apr 2014 10:23:08 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.make.devel
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On 11 April 2014 09:32, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:55:34 +0200
>> Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
>> From: Frank Heckenbach <[email protected]>

>> Now, if you want to use another interpreter with different quoting
>> rules, you can do:
>>
>> SHELL = /bin/frob
>> SHELL_QUOTE = $(subst or whatever ...)

This seems like a very specific name for a very general ability.  e.g.
by setting SHELL_QUOTE I might build up a list of files used in the
build and write them to a file with $(file).  I have often wanted this
so I anticipate other people wanting it too.

Surely it's something like AUTOVAR_EXPAND?

Regards,

Tim