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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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> From: bstark AT protechpts DOT com (Bob Stark)
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: 1 May 2002 03:52:50 -0700
> > 
> >   -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.

In addition to what I asked, I'd suggest to try

  -printer='"Acrobat Distiller"'

and

  -printer="\"Acrobat Distiller\""

(if you haven't already).