Re: [bug] (un)escaping problem in the makefile database output

2007-06-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 11:19 +0800, Agent Zhang wrote: Or is it indeed intentional by design and the database is not supposed to be in strictly-valid makefile notation anyway? I'm not sure, so I think it may be wise to ask here first before firing off a bug report to Savannah. It's certainly

Re: [bug] (un)escaping problem in the makefile database output

2007-06-04 Thread Agent Zhang
On 6/4/07, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feel free to file an enhancement request on Savannah to have this addressed. Already done in bug #20067 :) But I marked it as a bug instead of an enhancement. Sorry about that. Cheers, agentz ___

[bug] (un)escaping problem in the makefile database output

2007-06-03 Thread Agent Zhang
Hi, there~ I've been fiddling about with the Makefile databases generated by 'make -pq' since I'm writing a gnu make runtime in pure Perl (in order to bootstrap my complete Perl rewrite of gmake easily). I've been assuming that the stuff generated by 'make -pg' is in valid gmake syntax and my