Re: can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Jon Grant
Hi Dan Jacobson elucidated on 30/11/06 17:14: $ cat Makefile .PRECIOUS:.%.time %.t:.%.time; .%.time:% bla bla bla $ ls -1 Makefile 霧峰-桐林(有經朝陽科技大學) - Wufeng-Tonglin (Via Zhaoyang Technical University) Well, no amount of quoting will enable me to $ make '霧峰-桐林(有經朝陽科技大學) -

RE: can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Martin Dorey
Outlook, BlueArc Engineering -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Grant Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 13:26 To: Dan Jacobson Cc: bug-make@gnu.org Subject: Re: can't get far if file has difficult name Hi Dan Jacobson elucidated on 30/11

Re: can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Jon Grant
Martin Dorey elucidated on 30/11/06 21:32: Isn't this more relevant? (Quoting from here on.) Yeah, Looking at it again I can see that's likely the problem. Jon ___ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org

Re: can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 22:51 +, Jon Grant wrote: Martin Dorey elucidated on 30/11/06 21:32: Isn't this more relevant? (Quoting from here on.) Yeah, Looking at it again I can see that's likely the problem. I might need to reopen that bug; there definitely was a change in behavior WRT

RE: can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Martin Dorey
: Re: can't get far if file has difficult name On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 22:51 +, Jon Grant wrote: Martin Dorey elucidated on 30/11/06 21:32: Isn't this more relevant? (Quoting from here on.) Yeah, Looking at it again I can see that's likely the problem. I might need to reopen that bug

RE: can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 16:52 -0800, Martin Dorey wrote: Works for me if I remove the two close-parentheses and replace the white space with underscores. Open-parenthesis fine, close-parenthesis bad. Weird. Close-parenthesis is also bad with Debian sarge's make-3.80. I suspect that has to do

RE: can't get far if file has difficult name

2006-11-30 Thread Martin Dorey
an error from make. - Martin's Outlook, BlueArc Engineering -Original Message- From: Paul Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 18:27 To: Martin Dorey Cc: Jon Grant; bug-make@gnu.org; Dan Jacobson Subject: RE: can't get far