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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix cygwin install issues
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:09:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <434AA033.60308@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v64s571t5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> OK.  It is better than dq, and the user can still work it around
> like this if she really wanted to:
> 
> 	make bindir="Anna'\\''s Home/bin"
> 
> I wish we had $(shellquote $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)) in make ;-).

Hmm... let's think about this for a second...

shellquote = '$(subst ','\'',$(1))'

$(call shellquote,$(whatever))

... seems to work just fine.

(No need to worry about ! since Make commands are always /bin/sh.)

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-10 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-10  8:52 [PATCH] Fix cygwin install issues Jonas Fonseca
2005-10-10  9:03 ` Jonas Fonseca
2005-10-10  9:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-10  9:26   ` [PATCH] git.sh: quote all paths Jonas Fonseca
2005-10-10  9:32     ` Jonas Fonseca
2005-10-10 15:02   ` [PATCH] Fix cygwin install issues H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-10 16:51     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-10 17:09       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-10-10 20:52         ` Deal with $(bindir) and friends with whitespaces Junio C Hamano

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