> From: "Mark Galeck (CW)" <[email protected]>
> CC: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 11:49:49 -0800
> Accept-Language: en-US
> acceptlanguage: en-US
>
> Well OK, please do. But, is there any chance you can tell me, on Windows,
> using GNU make, and using either Windows echo or Cygwin echo (I can't predict
> which, some people have Cygwin installed some don't and I can't control that,
> I have to support either way),
>
> how do I reliably echo so that it echoes " \\foobar"
But you already found a way:
SHELL=cmd.exe
foobar:
echo \\foobar
(and rename echo.exe to something else, or remove it from PATH).
> by "reliably" I mean, that it is guaranteed to work now and later with future
> revisions of Gnu make?
The way it works with the Windows shell and Windows echo will not
change.
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