Paul Smith wrote:
The problem is that when SHELL contains quotations etc., /bin/sh is
invoked, and whole command is passed through that. But the outer shell
then destroys the backslash-newline sequences. The solution is to
singly-quote these. The attached patch against make 3.81 does this.
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 19:00 +0100, Petr Machata wrote:
> There is a bug tracked in Red Hat bugzilla
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219409
>
> The problem is best demonstrated by this Makefile snippet:
>
> all:;@echo e\
> cho
>
> With this make invocation, it w
Hi list!
There is a bug tracked in Red Hat bugzilla
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219409
The problem is best demonstrated by this Makefile snippet:
all:;@echo e\
cho
With this make invocation, it works as intended:
$ make 'SHELL=/bin/sh'
echo
But when th
