Re: delete large list of files

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:00:58 -0500
> From: Raleigh Rinehart <address@hidden>
> CC: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> 
> >> GNUTOOLS := c:\progra~1\GnuWin32
> >> RM    := $(GNUTOOLS)\bin\rm.exe -f
> > Does it help to use forward slashes, both in GNUTOOLS and in RM?  You
> > may need to include $(RM) in quotes then, like this:
> >
> >
> >     $(shell "$(RM)" $3 $(__a))
> 
> Surprisingly that does seem to have done the trick (sans quotes).

Not surprising at all, at least not to me.  Make's support for
backslashes in file names is incomplete, and only works reliably
inside commands of a rule, while you are using them inside function
calls.