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From: drupp AT cs DOT washington DOT edu (Douglas Rupp)
Message-Id: <199605070228.TAA10733@june.cs.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Make bug
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 19:28:46 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: drupp AT cs DOT washington DOT edu, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960505144217.11941T-100000@is> from "Eli Zaretskii" at May 5, 96 02:49:39 pm
MIME-Version: 1.0

The single quotes works very well, thanks.

> 
> The current port of GNU Make invokes COMMAND.COM when it sees double 
> quotes on the command line.  Change double quotes to single quotes and it 
> will work:
> 
> 	cd bar
> 	make 'CFLAGS=-g -O2' ../foo
> 
> I think the proper way to fix this for double quotes is to teach the
> library function `system' to treat quoting properly, then change Make so
> it always calls `system'.  I extended `system' to do this and it should be
> in the next release of DJGPP library.  I'm now ready to begin porting Make
> using the above idea.  I hope I'm right and it will work. 
> 

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