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patch #3632: Support of quoted, fully qualified LFN in W32
Submitter: | Hyoung Lee <hlee> | ||
Submitted: | Mon 10 Jan 2005 10:59:43 PM UTC | ||
Category: | None | Priority: | 5 - Normal |
Status: | Wont Do | Privacy: | Public |
Assigned to: | None | Open/Closed: | Closed |
Fixed Release: | None |
Sun 27 Feb 2005 09:06:27 PM UTC, comment #1: |
Paul D. Smith <psmith> |
Mon 10 Jan 2005 10:59:43 PM UTC, original submission:
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Hyoung Lee <hlee> |
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2005-02-27 | psmith | Status | None | Wont Do | |
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2005-01-10 | hlee | Attached File | - | Added read.c, #4023 |
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This patch is not sufficient to solve the problem. There are many, many places in make where strings are parsed and broken up on whitespace. For example, what about using make functions on the filenames, as many, many makefiles do? Functions almost always operate on words, defined by whitespace separators (addprefix, etc. etc.) None of these will take quoting into account, and changing make to recognize quoting everywhere necessary to make this feature work properly is a huge amount of work...
And finally, while I definitely agree that there is a need for a comprehensive quoting mechanism in GNU make, I don't think using quotes to do it is the right approach for a final solution.