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Re: Problem with backslash/newline on DOS/Windows/OS2/etc.?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Problem with backslash/newline on DOS/Windows/OS2/etc.? |
Date: |
Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:54:22 +0200 |
> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 16:16:17 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden
> From: "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden>
>
> So for example, if you had a rule like this:
>
> echo foo \
> bar
>
> then make would compress the backslash newline for you and it would
> actually exec something like (again, pretend there's no fast path):
>
> $(SHELL) -c 'echo foo bar'
>
>
> After this change, and according to POSIX, that's not how make is
> supposed to work. Make is supposed to preserve the backslash-newline
> and hand it over to the shell, and let the _shell_ deal with it.
In that case, I think this feature needs to be turned off on non-Posix
platforms. It will never work reliably; with most shells available on
Windows, it will simply fail, AFAIK. At the very least, it should be
turned off when the shell is not a Unixy shell.
- Problem with backslash/newline on DOS/Windows/OS2/etc.?, psmith, 2005/07/07
- Re: Problem with backslash/newline on DOS/Windows/OS2/etc.?, Earnie Boyd, 2005/07/07
- Re: Problem with backslash/newline on DOS/Windows/OS2/etc.?, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/07/07
- Re: Problem with backslash/newline on DOS/Windows/OS2/etc.?, Paul D. Smith, 2005/07/07
- Re: Problem with backslash/newline on DOS/Windows/OS2/etc.?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Problem with backslash/newline on DOS/Windows/OS2/etc.?, Paul D. Smith, 2005/07/12
- Re: Problem with backslash/newline on DOS/Windows/OS2/etc.?, Earnie Boyd, 2005/07/12
- Re: Problem with backslash/newline on DOS/Windows/OS2/etc.?, Paul D. Smith, 2005/07/12
- Re: Problem with backslash/newline on DOS/Windows/OS2/etc.?, Earnie Boyd, 2005/07/12
- Re: Problem with backslash/newline on DOS/Windows/OS2/etc.?, Paul D. Smith, 2005/07/12
- Re: Problem with backslash/newline on DOS/Windows/OS2/etc.?, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/07/12
- Re: Problem with backslash/newline on DOS/Windows/OS2/etc.?, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/07/12
- Re: Problem with backslash/newline on DOS/Windows/OS2/etc.?, Paul D. Smith, 2005/07/12
- Re: Problem with backslash/newline on DOS/Windows/OS2/etc.?, Earnie Boyd, 2005/07/12
- Re: Problem with backslash/newline on DOS/Windows/OS2/etc.?, Paul D. Smith, 2005/07/13