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Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 15:02:09 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: How do you pass double quotes to a program via gnu make?
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On 1 May 2002, Bob Stark wrote:

> >   -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.

I guess that program is not a DJGPP program, right?  If so, this is a 
tough problem, due to incompatibilities in handling quotes between 
different programs.

Can you post here the entire command line (or list of command lines, if 
the rule invokes more than one command) that needs to be run for this 
specific target?  There's no general solution to this problem, but if you 
show the specifics, perhaps there's a solution for your specific case.