Re: Output quoting (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths)

[Tim Murphy]

On 11 April 2014 15:34, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:06:32 +0100
>> From: Tim Murphy <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Frank Heckenbach <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>>
>> Filename quoting is just a special case of hooking into automatic
>> variable expansion.
>
> I don't think this is true.  File name quoting is just that -- take a
> file name and quote every special character in it.

This is about automatic variables right? The mechanism that's proposed
is to magically call a make macro on them after they have been fully
expanded?

So the new general feature that's being added is a hook and for some
reason this hook will only be available for a very special use case.

Regards,

Tim


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