On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 10:20:59PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> I encountered a problem with quoting when running a cygwin gcc (in
> this case, in "-mno-cygwin" MinGW mode) from a non-cygwin make that
> the following patch would fix, but I've been hesitant to send it to
> you because I don't know what all platforms go through that code, and
> know how likely quoting changes are to mess things up in obscure ways,
> and also because I feel the cygwin behavior is buggy, though unlikely
> to change.  But here it is, nevertheless.  Maybe if nothing else it
> can be the first patch towards 6.27.

This smells like its going to break something.  Also this code has been
in there for a very long time so I'm not inclined to change it now.

I'll just wait and see if this turns out to be a Cygwin bug.

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