RE: win32 paths with spaces

[jgrant]

Morning,

If the quotes remained in the string (instead of being removed when parsed
as it seems at present) this would be the indication a special string.
Perhaps a flag could be set when quotes are used, then the various
processing on the variables would know to treat it as a special string.

Just an idea, kind regards

Jonathan


> I think you're greatly oversimplifying this.  Make doesn't 
> know whether the contents of a variable are file names, 
> arguments, input to some command, or anything else.  Just 
> assuming that everything inside quotes should be treated as a 
> single word during make operations that work on words (like 
> all the make functions, etc.) would be a _gigantic_ 
> backward-incompatibility.