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From: bstark AT protechpts DOT com (Bob Stark)
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Subject: Re: How do you pass double quotes to a program via gnu make?
Date: 1 May 2002 03:52:50 -0700
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message news:<Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 1020430192638 DOT 9802B-100000 AT is>...
> On 30 Apr 2002, Bob Stark wrote:
> 
> > I am setting up gnu make to publish some files on Windows NT.  One of
> > the commands that I run needs to be passed a parameter in the form:
> >   -printer="Acrobat Distiller"
> > 
> > quotes are stripped off before they are passed to the executable.
> 
> That's intended.  Try
> 
>   -printer=\"Acrobat Distiller\"

The problem with that approach is that the back slashes are NOT
stripped off; the program receives exactly:

-printer=\"Acrobat Distiller\"

It cannot parse that syntax.