> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:58:00 -0400
> From: "William A. Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: make-w32@gnu.org
>
> Just noticed:
>
> static char sh_chars_sh[] = "#;\"*?[]&|<>(){}$`^";
>
> Note the \" This is in the #ifdef __MSDOS__ section which I assume
> is on for mingw.
No, MinGW picks up the "#elif defined (WINDOWS32)" section.
> Why is " considered a shell character?
Please note that it is considered a shell character on _all_ systems
when a Unixy shell is invoked. I believe the reason is that a Posix
shell removes the quotes from the command line, and has other special
processing inside a quoted argument. So Make invokes the shell, to
avoid knowing too much about this processing.
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