Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 14:20:54 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Wildcards in Makefiles Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Since the latest alpha snapshot was built with the new versions of the startup code and the spawnXX functions, everybody please be aware that there is currently an inconsistency between Make 3.73 and the programs it calls. Specifically, if the command line on the Makefile includes wildcards and/or quote characters, it won't work. For instance, the following frequent target will fail (if you build `etags' with the new library): TAGS: etags *.c *.h This is because the startup code was changed to not glob arguments passed from `spawnXX', but Make still calls `spawn' when the command line doesn't include pipes/redirection. Another case that this problem will be seen is if you call GNU `find' with a quoted wildcard--the quotes won't be stripped by the startup code in `find'. The next port of Make 3.74 calls `system' in these cases, as God intended. If anybody has a case where the above breaks the Makefile hard enough, you can get the pretest of the next port at this URL: ftp://is.elta.co.il/pub/make.exe Of course, the above also applies to any other DJGPP program that invokes child DJGPP programs with arguments that could include wildcards; you should switch to `system' instead of `spawn' in these cases.