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Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special c
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths) |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Feb 2014 19:17:16 +0200 |
> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:05:59 +0100
> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Frank Heckenbach <address@hidden>
>
> > 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).
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), (continued)
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Paul Smith, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters, Paul Eggert, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Tim Murphy, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Paul Smith, 2014/02/26
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Tim Murphy, 2014/02/26
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/02/26
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Paul Smith, 2014/02/26
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Tim Murphy, 2014/02/26
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths),
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/02/22
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/22
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/02/23
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/24