RE: sh doesn't like make's quoting

["Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at ipass dot net>]

I assume you want make-3.78.1 for MingW32, because you compiled using VC?
right?
I do have and would e-mail you separately.
Also, for MingW32, I prefer gmake.exe which is available from www.mozila.org
You will find it at Mozila URl under Windows, it contains a msdossh and
gmake.
It seems to understand UNIX style Makefiles pretty good.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of Todd Greer
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 7:47 PM
> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: sh doesn't like make's quoting
>
>
> I looked in archives for this, but couldn't find help...
>
> I'm having problems with 'echo "foo"' in a makefile, using a make I
> built.  If someone can either tell me how to fix the problem or where
> to get a recent make that will work, I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> I recently compiled the latest version of make (3.78.1) because I want
> the $(MAKECMDGOALS) feature that was introduced in 3.77.  (Cygwin
> B20.1 has 3.75).  I used their build_w32.bat, which uses VC.
>
> I #defined HAVE_CYGWIN_SHELL (and HAVE_CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS, though
> that probably doesn't matter) in config.h_w32 and config.h (I assume
> the latter is automatically generated from the former, but I put it in
> just in case.)
>
> The problem is a simple make action: 'echo "making all"' (The three \
> newlines on the last three lines are for usenet--The CreateProcess
> line is actually one line.
>
> running make -d all yields, among much other output:
> echo "making all"
> Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> CreateProcess(d:\cygnus\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\bin\sh.exe,\
> d:/cygnus/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/bin/sh.exe\
>  -c "echo \"making all\"",...)\
>
> I'm guessing that the quoting is messed up.  It doesn't matter whether
> MAKE_MODE is not set, unix, or win32.
>
> TIA for any help
> --
> Todd Greer	<tgreer@acm.org>
>
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