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

Tim Murphy <[email protected]> Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:54:52 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.make.devel
Message-ID <CACJSg6mW+o7iyVqgw0OmXL+f8sRCmktov1T4Z-zukZba+SshVw@mail.gmail.com>
On 11 April 2014 15:34, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:06:32 +0100
>> From: Tim Murphy <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Frank Heckenbach <[email protected]>, [email protected]
>>
>> Filename quoting is just a special case of hooking into automatic
>> variable expansion.
>
> I don't think this is true.  File name quoting is just that -- take a
> file name and quote every special character in it.

This is about automatic variables right? The mechanism that's proposed
is to magically call a make macro on them after they have been fully
expanded?

So the new general feature that's being added is a hook and for some
reason this hook will only be available for a very special use case.

Regards,

Tim


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