Well, what you sent me prints correctly, so it must be the Windows port of GNU that is doing this
> With the makefile > > foobar: > echo \\\foobar > why > > C:\Temp>make foobar > \\foobar > > Where is this explained in the manual? Paul says: (...) then there's a bug in GNU make's fast-path backslash handling for Windows systems. But Paul, one more thing, where does it say in the manual, that it should be \foobar (one slash). I only see, that \\ at the _end_ of the command, is escaped, but from my reading of the manual, it seems to indicate that this is only for the end, in the middle of a command, \ is not any special. _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32