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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:00:13 +0000
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Subject: Re: Bug in make?
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
 
> On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> 
> > Then make should process argv[0]. After all that's the normal case when 
> > called from command line and not spawned.
> 
> I would prefer to solve a local problem (i.e. backslashes mishandling in 
> Makefile command lines) locally.  This means that the function which 
> interprets the command lines read from a Makefile should be changed to 
> not strip the backslashes under some conditions, so that cases like what 
> you reported would work.
> 
> OTOH, what you suggest has a global effect (it changes how the value of
> $(MAKE) will look in recursive Make's) which could break something,
> somewhere.  Who knows, maybe some Makefile out there writes the value of 
> $(MAKE) to a file and expects it to be with backslashes?

[If I understood your explanation about command line call to make and make 
spawned by make]
But if I call make from the command line it process argv[0] anyways!! 
From my point of view if something breaks is already broken, at least fix 
something that can be fixed.
$(MAKE) should be the same no matters if I call make from the command line or 
if I spawn make (from make or other program).
If somebody spects $(MAKE) to have forward slashes s/he won't get it if make 
is called from the command line. 

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