Follow-up Comment #7, bug #56449 (project make):
Hi, I'm the original author of this bug. It's some time ago I wrote this, so
maybe I've forgotten some details...
[comment #2 comment #2:]
> I see that this bug was fixed and closed, but looking at the result, I'm not
sure the fix is correct. If I invoke a Windows program from the cmd.exe
prompt with %% as argument, the program gets "%%" as its argv[1], not just a
single %.
>
> So I guess I don't understand why the OP expected to get a single %
character. Am I missing something?
I guess that cmd.exe may distinguish between "interactive mode" and "script
mode".
So in interactive mode it will not change double % to a single %. But in
script mode it does. For this moment I have no windows machine, but on
wineconsole I get different output when I
- type "echo %%" --> I get double %
- insert "echo %%" into a test.cmd file --> I get single %
I also remember that using *echo* is not a good idea for demonstration with
*make*. As make recognizes echo as a shell builtin it always invokes this via
a shell.
That is the reason why I sent the demo program.
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