Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 08:07:13 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: a make format problem
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On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, ³¯¬f¦~ wrote:

>   I got a problem to pass a link path to linker by writting the path into a
> tmp file as the following line:

Why do you need to use a temporary file?  DJGPP programs have no problems 
in passing very long command lines to one another, so you shouldn't need 
this extra step.

>     echo -Lpath1;path2 > tmp.lnk
> 
>   make utility treat the semicolon as the seperate of two command,
> so I got a "bad command or file name" error message because path2 is not a
> valid command.

The usual way to hide the special meaning of special characters is to 
quote them, like this:

	echo -Lpath1";"path2 > tmp.lnk

Doesn't this work for you?