Re: Variable expansion question

On Thu, 2022-10-27 at 09:58 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> If make is not parsing a variable (because you've escaped the "$"
> that introduces a variable) then special characters are not treated
> specially.

I should say that Dmitry filed a bug about this behavior (not this
exactly but a similar behavior):

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?60799

He provided a patch but I'm still thinking about it because it is a
behavior change.  It won't be in 4.4 but maybe later.  However, I don't
think that change by itself will help you with this problem.

It might be possible to fix this specific case without compat problems
since it's a variable assignment.