[bug #44348] Quoted arguments and wildcard extension if temporary batch file is not used

[Stefan Potyra]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44348>

                 Summary: Quoted arguments and wildcard extension if temporary
batch file is not used
                 Project: make
            Submitted by: spotyra
            Submitted on: Mon 23 Feb 2015 08:12:12 AM GMT
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
       Component Version: 4.1
        Operating System: MS Windows
           Fixed Release: None
           Triage Status: None

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Details:

Hi,

when using cmd.exe as SHELL and MAKESHELL, make nowadays supports using a
shortcut to not create a temporary .bat-file. This works great except under
the following circumstances:
If an argument to a command is quoted and contains a wildcard, and a filename
matches this wildcard then this argument is expanded. This behavior is
different from the behavior on a unixy system or when a temporary batch-file
is used.

This problem happens when the command is a cygwin command (and I'm using a
mingw-built make). I don't think it happens when running a native windows
command, but I'm not sure about this.

This problem seems to persist in 4.0 and 4.1.

I'm attaching a trivial example Makefile and script to reproduce this
problem.

Cheers and thanks,
  Stefan.



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Date: Mon 23 Feb 2015 08:12:12 AM GMT  Name: test.mak  Size: 243B   By:
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Date: Mon 23 Feb 2015 08:12:12 AM GMT  Name: printargs.pl  Size: 81B   By:
spotyra

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=33160>

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