> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 22:15:56 +0900 > From: Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> > Cc: psm...@gnu.org, mh+savan...@glandium.org, bo...@kolpackov.net, > bug-make@gnu.org > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:37:47AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:14:32 +0000 > > > From: Mike Hommey <invalid.nore...@gnu.org> > > > > > > This is a different approach to the problem, as suggested by Paul: this > > > triggers batch mode shell when there are double quotes in the recipe. > > > > This cannot be automatic, as we have deliberately made the double > > quotes not special for Windows shells. > > You mean cmd.exe? The patch only uses batch mode shell when there are > double quotes *and* the shell is unixy (so, not cmd.exe)
That's better, but still too subtly to be the default, I think. Having some essentially random character trigger very different behavior is bad mojo for a program in general. > > So please make this > > conditional on some Make option (sorry, I didn't yet have time to look > > at the patch). > > An option as command line argument, or as a special target as the > original patch did? The former, as Paul objected to the latter. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
