Hi Greg; I have been reading this, I just haven't had any time to look and see what's actually going on, so I haven't commented. I do agree with you that this is no a shell issue, but is really a problem (of some sort) with make.
Can you please summarize your ultimate findings into a bug report and submit it on the Savannah site for me? That way I'll be able to remember it. I'll see if I can determine why make is not handling the backslash consistently. I'm leaning towards not fixing the initial issue you reported, where: $ make FOO=' ' results in FOO being empty rather than containing a single space, because to fix that would mean that the behavior of this: $ make 'FOO = bar' which currently works "as you'd expect" from a make variable setting and gives a value of "bar" instead of " bar", would change incompatibly. But, I do wonder about the backslash issue. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
