On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Andre Srinivasan wrote:
> o Quoted expressions in shell commands don't seem to translate
> across platforms. In the SunOS5.6 and Cygwin versions of
> make 3.78.1, I could use the following:
>
> subdirs: $(DIRS)
> if [ "x$(DIRS)" != x ]; then \
> for dir in $(DIRS); do \
> (cd $$dir && $(MAKE)); \
> done; \
> fi
>
> When I switched to 3.79 (built for W32), I had to change the
> double quotes to single quotes to avoid a shell error.
EZ> Are you sure this is Make issue, not a shell issue? In other
EZ> words, are you sure Make invokes Bash in this case? If it invokes
EZ> the Windows shell, then I can understand why you are having
EZ> problems with quotes.
I just checked that indeed bash is being invoked:
$ cat Makefile
all:
echo $$SHELL
$ make
echo $SHELL
d:/cygnus/cygwin-b20/usr/local/bin/sh.exe
$
-andre.
