URL:
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60312>
Summary: echo replaces double quote with backslash
Project: make
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Tue 30 Mar 2021 08:22:32 PM UTC
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Bug
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Component Version: 4.3
Operating System: MS Windows
Fixed Release: None
Triage Status: None
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Details:
It seems to happen when there's no blanks earlier in the line. System is
Windows 10, MINGW-64.
$ make --version
GNU Make 4.3
Built for Windows32
Copyright (C) 1988-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
$ cat tm
all:
echo 'space before: "xx"'
echo 'nospacebefore:"xx"'
echo '"xx"'
$ make -f tm
echo 'space before: "xx"'
space before: "xx"
echo 'nospacebefore:"xx"'
nospacebefore:\xx"
echo '"xx"'
\xx"
No problems with same version on GNU/Linux (Debian).
Thanks.
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