RE: desperate situation with $(shell ... :(

[Mark Galeck (CW)]

You guessed my questions correctly, Paul
> If the question is, is there some expected/anticipated way that this
could give the behavior you're seeing, then the answer is "no".

>  Is it possible there's a bug
in the GNU make implementation on Windows which is causing this problem?
Sure, bugs happen


Basically, if I don't see any evidence that I am doing something wrong, then I 
will put in a workaround, something that checks, whether the number of lines in 
the file, matches the number of words in the string.  But this is cumbersome, 
and certainly I would prefer if I made a bug somewhere which I could correct :)