I've run into exactly the same problem as a decade-old bug report - that backslashes escaped by colons in dependencies aren't removed. Rather than repeating it, I refer you to the 1995 bug report which still fails in 3.80:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/gnu.utils.bug/msg/9cafcf265b47c763 Subject: bug&fix: backslashes for quoting colons in dependencies not removed From: Tony Silva Date: Nov 17 1995, 12:00 am The patch forward-ported to 3.80 is below, which seems to do the trick. (though I'm not completely sure that strcpy isn't going to buffer overrun - that string could always be realloced by one byte longer) This never received a reply at the time - any thoughts this time around? Thanks Theo --- old/make-3.80/read.c 2002-10-04 03:13:42.000000000 +0100 +++ make-3.80/read.c 2005-02-23 22:03:04.000000000 +0000 @@ -1155,6 +1155,19 @@ deps = (struct dep *) multi_glob (parse_file_seq (&p2, '|', sizeof (struct dep), 1), sizeof (struct dep)); + { + struct dep *d; + char *p; + + for (d = deps; d!=0; d = d->next) + /* unquote backslashed (escaped)colons in + * each dependency name + */ + for (p = d->name; *p; p++) + if (*p == '\\' && p[1] == ':') + strcpy(p, p+1); + + } if (*p2) { /* Files that follow '|' are special prerequisites that ----- -- Theo Markettos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Clare Hall, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] CB3 9AL, UK http://www.markettos.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
