Re: multiple wildcards in a static pattern rule

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Noel Yap <address@hidden> writes:

  ny> Hey, that's cool!  How does it handle the situation if the 'cp'
  ny> fails?

Same as if the shell that it would have run to invoke cp fails...

  ny> Also, I'm not sure what you meant by "shell metacharacters".  Does
  ny> "&&" qualify as "shell metacharacters"?

Yes.  Also "|", both double and single quotes, "$" (after expansion),
"~", etc.  Note it doesn't parse shell syntax, it just looks for single
characters.  So it might sometimes invoke a shell when it wasn't
strictly necessary but that doesn't hurt much.

Here's a complete list from the source: if any of these appear in the
command GNU make will invoke a shell.  If none of them do, it will run
the command directly.

  static char sh_chars[] = "#;\"*?[]&|<>(){}$`^~";
  static char *sh_cmds[] = { "cd", "eval", "exec", "exit", "login",
                             "logout", "set", "umask", "wait", "while", "for",
                             "case", "if", ":", ".", "break", "continue",
                             "export", "read", "readonly", "shift", "times",
                             "trap", "switch", 0 };

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