OK, so let me hazard a "rule". With GNU make on Windows, in the middle of a rule command, and when the command is not "built-in", then "\" is an escape character. In particular, when parsing left-to-right, "\\" will escape itself and pass "\". However, to be compatible with Windows paths, "\" will not escape the next character, if it could be the beginning of a file or directory name, so "\foobar" will pass "foobar".
(Now this still leaves us what happens when the next character is not \ and not a beginning of a filename, but that is of no concern to me right now) Does this sound about right and can I expect this rule should always work? >It does that only when it does not invoke builtin commands. _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
