Re: question about quoting of certain values..

[Philip Guenther]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Stephan Beal <address@hidden> wrote:
> Please consider this output line (from make):
>
> + g++ ... -UNDEBUG -DDEBUG=1 '-DINCLUDE_SHELL_BINDINGS="jspdo.hpp"' ...
>
> the interesting bit in the -DINCLUDE_SHELL_BINDINGS part. Those are declared
> as:
>
>  $(SHELL.LOCAL.O):
> CPPFLAGS+=-DINCLUDE_SHELL_BINDINGS='"$(SHELL_BINDINGS_HEADER)"'
>
> note the placement of the quotes. It appears that make is doing the extra
> quoting/re-quoting. Is that the case? i.e. is that documented,
> wlll-stay-thay-way behaviour i can depend on?

That looks to me like output from the shell's -x option and not from
make.  If you want to know what make's executing, just make sure the
command doesn't have a leading '@' in the Makefile.


Philip Guenther