On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But in that context you can just use --arg1="$(SOME_VAL_WITH_SPACES)" > because the shell does recognise quotes, and make just passes everything > in the recipe through sh -c.
i was thinking that $(quote) might do some more intelligent handling, e.g.: a) if the value contains ' characters, quote it with " chars. b) if the value contains " chars, quote it with ' c) if the value contains both, quote it with " and backslash-escape any " literals in the value. That said, i don't think it would be useful terribly often. -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
