Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <19991014031140.9359.rocketmail@web123.yahoomail.com> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 20:11:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: sh doesn't like make's quoting To: Todd Greer , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Todd Greer wrote: > I looked in archives for this, but couldn't find help... > > I'm having problems with 'echo "foo"' in a makefile, using a make I > built. If someone can either tell me how to fix the problem or where > to get a recent make that will work, I would greatly appreciate it. > > I recently compiled the latest version of make (3.78.1) because I want > the $(MAKECMDGOALS) feature that was introduced in 3.77. (Cygwin > B20.1 has 3.75). I used their build_w32.bat, which uses VC. > Use `echo 'foo'' instead of `echo "foo"'. You could also try `echo ""foo""'. ===== Earnie Boyd Newbies, please visit (If you respond to the list, then please don't cc me) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com