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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 20:11:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: Re: sh doesn't like make's quoting
To: Todd Greer <tgreer AT acm DOT org>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- Todd Greer <tgreer AT acm DOT org> 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""'.


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