[bug #60312] echo replaces double quote with backslash

Update of bug #60312 (project make): Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #11: I'm going to close this as "not a bug" but if someone disagrees please add a comment. I must

[bug #60312] echo replaces double quote with backslash

Follow-up Comment #10, bug #60312 (project make): I'm not sure I know what to do with this: is there a problem to be resolved or should this be closed? ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #60312] echo replaces double quote with backslash

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #60312 (project make): I do have it: $ which sh /usr/bin/sh but make seems to be calling echo.exe directly. Extracts from "strace make -f tm": 0 0 [main] echo (7896) ** 155 155 [main] echo (7896) Program

[bug #60312] echo replaces double quote with backslash

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #60312 (project make): Yes, you're right. I thought echo was an internal command. I investigated further and the culprit seems to be the POSIX emulation library, which does strange things trying to emulate shell globbing. Sorry for the inconvenience, please discard this

[bug #60312] echo replaces double quote with backslash

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #60312 (project make): Make passes recipies to shell line by line. Shell runs echo. You can see here echo 'nospacebefore:"xx"' nospacebefore:\xx" The first line is what make passes to shell. The 2nd line is the result of echo. Apparently, echo on your system does this.

[bug #60312] echo replaces double quote with backslash

URL: Summary: echo replaces double quote with backslash Project: make Submitted by: None Submitted on: Tue 30 Mar 2021 08:22:32 PM UTC Severity: 3 - Normal Item Group: