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

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote:

> The first invocation of x.bat works, while the second one won't (''a' is
>
> not recognized as...)
>
> It's not a bug: cmd.exe doesn't know about '..' quoting, so this
> command is not supposed to work.  That it does without redirection is
> sheer luck.
>

What I meant is that it's a GNU make bug that the first line does work.

I don't want to rock the boat any further in this regard before the
> next release of Make, so I don't want to forcibly disable '..' quoting
> support when cmd.exe is used.  Make worked like that forever; I think
> one incompatible change per release is more than enough ;-)


That's a shame... this means that it will continue to be risky to use ' in
recipes. I would count it as a single change to fix short-circuiting to
actually interpret quoting like cmd.

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