Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 13:38:37 -0400
From: dj (DJ Delorie)
Message-Id: <199609021738.NAA14280@delorie.com>
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960902170553.24344E-100000@is> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 2 Sep 1996 17:10:22 +0200 (IST))
Subject: Re: make problems


> Then please keep in mind that command lines passed from `spawn' aren't
> globbed and/or stripped of the quote characters by the new startup code,
> so commands like ``etags *.c'' won't work (that's why Make 3.75 will call
> `system' in these cases).  It shouldn't be a problem with the command you
> use for gcc, because that one is invoked via a batch file (it has double
> quotes which is treated as a character special to the shell), but still... 

Double quotes aren't special to djgpp make - make calls gcc directly
with !proxy (I've got a mono monitor program that shows me this).
However, it appears to work correctly anyway, except for the other
bug.