>>> "pds" == Paul D Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...] adl> So any solution that require a syntax that is different in adl> prerequisites than it is in the commands seems wrong to me. pds> I definitely agree that this incongruity is disturbing, but that's the pds> way it is. Don't read me wrong, that wasn't a judgement of the way things are but an attempt to characterize an acceptable solution for Automake. Automake is meant to produce portable Makefiles so I don't want to introduce non-portable constructs in its generated output, even conditionally (it's already hard enough to test). The only place we could tolerate non-portable constructs is in the user input (*.am) that is output almost verbatim. Hence my statement: since users writes the variables, I'm looking for a solution that involves only changing these variables, and since these variables are used both in prerequisite lists and commands... pds> Hopefully the next version of GNU make will have some more generic pds> mechanism for quoting that will handle ALL different "special pds> characters" that might appear in filenames, including colons and pds> whitespace as well as dollar signs. Excellent! That seems to be the ticket, doesn't it? -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
