Re: make fails when quote marks are encountered - SOLVED (??)

2007-06-20 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Daniel Mendyke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: In answer to your question about where my version of 'make' came from, I installed Dev-Cpp on my system which included 'make' 3.80. Then I used the package installation feature of Dev-Cpp to upgraded to 'make' 3.81, using the package found at http://

make fails when quote marks are encountered - SOLVED (??)

2007-06-20 Thread Daniel Mendyke
In answer to your question about where my version of 'make' came from, I installed Dev-Cpp on my system which included 'make' 3.80. Then I used the package installation feature of Dev-Cpp to upgraded to 'make' 3.81, using the package found at http://www.devpaks.org. With all the talk about thi

Re: make fails when quote marks are encountered

2007-06-19 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:02:16 -0700 > From: "Daniel Mendyke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > My version of 'make' is: > > c:\tmp$ make -v > GNU Make 3.81 > Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. > There

make fails when quote marks are encountered

2007-06-19 Thread Daniel Mendyke
My version of 'make' is: c:\tmp$ make -v GNU Make 3.81 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. This program

Re: make fails when quote marks are encountered

2007-06-19 Thread Jon Grant
Hi. On 19/06/07, Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:24:48 -0700 > From: "Daniel Mendyke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm running windows XP with Gnu make 3.8.1 > > C:\tmp$ make --version > GNU Make 3.81 > Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc

Re: make fails when quote marks are encountered

2007-06-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: From above: This program built for i686-pc-mingw32 This isn't the MSYS version of make. Then maybe it's a MinGW one. IIRC it is built from unmodified GMAKE source and uses the MSVCRT.DLL runtime but the Makefile to create make.exe is generated

Re: make fails when quote marks are encountered

2007-06-19 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:58:45 -0400 > From: Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > How about if you build Make yourself, like I did, and see if that > > makes the problem go away? > > > > I don't think that will help. I think it is the shell clobbering the > command line. So we need to know

Re: make fails when quote marks are encountered

2007-06-19 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 08:58 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > What shell does not support ".." quoting? I know of no such shell. I have no idea--but as we all know I'm utterly lame when it comes to Windows. -- --- Paul D.

Re: make fails when quote marks are encountered

2007-06-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:24 -0700, Daniel Mendyke wrote: Can anyone suggest reasons why make is failing? My suspicion is that it's a shell problem. The shell you're using to run the command by hand is not the same shell make is invoking to run the comm

Re: make fails when quote marks are encountered

2007-06-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
Quoting Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:24:48 -0700 From: "Daniel Mendyke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm running windows XP with Gnu make 3.8.1 C:\tmp$ make --version GNU Make 3.81 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software;

Re: make fails when quote marks are encountered

2007-06-18 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:18:36 -0400 > Cc: make-w32@gnu.org > > On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:24 -0700, Daniel Mendyke wrote: > > Can anyone suggest reasons why make is failing? > > My suspicion is that it's a shell problem. The shell you're using to > run th

Re: make fails when quote marks are encountered

2007-06-18 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:24:48 -0700 > From: "Daniel Mendyke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm running windows XP with Gnu make 3.8.1 > > C:\tmp$ make --version > GNU Make 3.81 > Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This is free software; see the source for copying

Re: make fails when quote marks are encountered

2007-06-18 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:24 -0700, Daniel Mendyke wrote: > Can anyone suggest reasons why make is failing? My suspicion is that it's a shell problem. The shell you're using to run the command by hand is not the same shell make is invoking to run the command, and that's causing confusion regarding

make fails when quote marks are encountered

2007-06-18 Thread Daniel Mendyke
This is a strange problem. I'm running windows XP with Gnu make 3.8.1 C:\tmp$ make --version GNU Make 3.81 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or F