Re: make fails when quote marks are encountered

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:

> > Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:24:48 -0700
> > From: "Daniel Mendyke" <address@hidden>
> >
> > I'm running windows XP with Gnu make 3.8.1
> >
> >     C:\tmp$ make --version
> >     GNU Make 3.81
> >     Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> >     This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
> >     There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
> >     PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> >
> >     This program built for i686-pc-mingw32
> >
> >     C:\tmp$
>
> Same here, almost:
>
>    GNU Make 3.81
>    Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>    This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
>    There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
>    PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
>    This program built for Windows32
>
> Where did you get the binary of Make?  I built mine myself from the
> sources, using the build_w32.bat batch file and the MinGW GCC
> compiler.
>
> > If my Makefile contains quoted values it ends with an error message,
> > if I remove the quotes the Makefile builds correctly.  The following
> > examples illustrate the problem.  Note that 'main.cc' is an error-free
> > C++ source file in 'c:\tmp'.
> >
> > Example #1: ---------------------------------
> >
> >     C:\tmp$ cat Makefile
> >
> >     test:   main.cc
> >             g++ -o sample main.cc  -I"c:\tmp"
> >
> >     C:\tmp$ make
> >     g++ -o sample main.cc  -I"c:\tmp"
> >     g++: main.cc: No such file or directory
> >     g++: no input files
> >     make: *** [test] Error 1
>
> I cannot reproduce this with my copy of Make 3.81: it works correctly
> both with and without the quotes.
>
> How about if you build Make yourself, like I did, and see if that
> makes the problem go away?

I don't think that will help.  I think it is the shell clobbering the 
command line.  So we need to know if sh.exe exists.  I don't understand 
why main.cc isn't being found.  It is as if g++ is not getting any 
arguments.  This has to be a shell issue.

> > Can anyone suggest reasons why make is failing?
>
> Some snafu in quoting the quote characters when g++ is invoked via
> CreateProcess, I presume.  But since it works for me, I cannot even
> try debugging it.

I'm wondering what sh.exe might be on PATH?  Perhaps it is the quoting 
the shell is doing subsequent to the CreateProcess.

> Is it possible that you are using the MSYS port of Make?  If so,
> don't: it is not intended to be used except for MSYS work.

From above: This program built for i686-pc-mingw32

This isn't the MSYS version of make.  My tests show that native make 
works within the MSYS shell except for interrupting the child 
processes.  And if you're having an issue with MSYS you need to ask the 
address@hidden list.

Earnie