Wait, you just said before, you that this is _Not _ passed to shell, remember, we did an experiment. That's the whole point, you said before, it _should_ be \foobar, that is what you had "expected", obviously based on some knowledge about GNU make's behavior.
> With the makefile > > foobar: > echo \\\foobar > why > > C:\Temp>make foobar > \\foobar > _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32