On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote: > The first invocation of x.bat works, while the second one won't (''a' is > > not recognized as...) > > It's not a bug: cmd.exe doesn't know about '..' quoting, so this > command is not supposed to work. That it does without redirection is > sheer luck. >
What I meant is that it's a GNU make bug that the first line does work. I don't want to rock the boat any further in this regard before the > next release of Make, so I don't want to forcibly disable '..' quoting > support when cmd.exe is used. Make worked like that forever; I think > one incompatible change per release is more than enough ;-) That's a shame... this means that it will continue to be risky to use ' in recipes. I would count it as a single change to fix short-circuiting to actually interpret quoting like cmd.
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