Re: Bug: make fails to execute .BAT files with space in the path, with SHELL=cmd.exe

Erik Carstensen <[email protected]> Thu, 2 May 2013 14:16:19 +0200

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On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote:

I fixed that in the repository; the patch is below if you want to try
> it.
>

So I assume then that make is expected to use the same quoting rules as CMD
when short-circuiting the shell. Then there is another bug: make's arg
quoting has some special treatment for single quotes, whereas cmd.exe
itself hasn't. So, in

SHELL=cmd.exe
default:
        'a b\x.bat'
        'a b\x.bat' >NUL

The first invocation of x.bat works, while the second one won't (''a' is
not recognized as...)

This is not a problem for my use case, but it did add to my confusion when
doing experiments.

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