Re: Incorrect quoting of """" """" in master branch, with SHELL=cmd.exe

> Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 22:26:14 +0200
> From: Erik Carstensen <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> 
> > why not use this instead:
> >
> > SHELL=cmd.exe
> > default:
> >         $(MAKE) -f foo.mk x="a b"
> >
> 
> The problem is that foo.mk will use $(x) directly in shell invocations.

Then you can quote $(x) inside foo.mk, as in "$(x)".

> Furthermore, foo.mk is provided by the user, and I don't want to ask my
> users to worry about quoting.

Well, quoting something that might include whitespace is natural.

> But these details are not so relevant, as \" indeed would solve this use
> case.

Right.