From:	alainm AT news DOT RISQ DOT QC DOT CA (Alain Magloire)
Subject:	Re: a make format problem
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Date:	Sat, 13 Nov 1999 20:25:12 GMT
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³¯¬f¦~ (bnchen AT netrd DOT iii DOT org DOT tw) wrote:
:   I use Djgpp make utility and SSI linker to develop my project under DOS
: environment.

:   I got a problem to pass a link path to linker by writting the path into a
: tmp file as the following line:

:     echo -Lpath1;path2 > tmp.lnk

:   make utility treat the semicolon as the seperate of two command,
: so I got a "bad command or file name" error message because path2 is not a
: valid command.

I don't think make is doing any interpretation. However the shell will
see two dinstinct comands :
echo -Lpath1
path2 > tmp.lnk

:   How can I do to pass the directory?

Use the backslash to suppress the shell interpretation of ';'

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au revoir, alain
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