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

> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:05:59 +0100
> Cc: [email protected]
> From: Frank Heckenbach <[email protected]>
> 
> > As discussed before, our desired result is that this makefile:
> > 
> >   FOO = foo\ bar
> >   $(FOO): ; @echo '$(FOO)' > '$@'
> > 
> > would run this command:
> > 
> >   echo 'foo bar' > 'foo bar'
> 
> That's were I differ (but I hope Eli will follow me here).

I do, of course.  What I said before was just a wild guess, not based
on any analysis.  You convinced me that leaving alone the backslash is
a better idea.

> Actually, in all the examples above, there would be no change in
> behaviour at all.

With Posix shells, I hope so.  We will need to think about other
shells, like Python, Perl and whatnot (let alone Windows shells -- but
let's forget about Windows for the moment).