[Mingw-users] bug in make?

[Wirawan P. <wir...@ne...>]

Hi,

I am using mingw gcc package (1.0, if not 1.1) under Windows 2000, and found
the following error. I wonder if you can reproduce the same error:

1. create a test make file, e.g. test.mak: (<tab> = actual tab char). This
is a 3-line script:

all:
<tab>   @echo 'ac_maketemp="${MAKE}"'
<tab>   @echo '${MAKE}'

2. I used make version 3.79.1 (detailed below)

GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
Built for mingw32
Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000
        Free Software Foundation, Inc.

3. Using the program mentioned in (2), I typed

make -f test.mak

in the command prompt. The result is the following (total 2 lines):

ac_maketemp=\c:/usr/gcc/bin/make.exe"
c:/usr/gcc/bin/make.exe

HERE is the bug: the first line should read

ac_maketemp="c:/usr/gcc/bin/make.exe"

instead! The first quoting mark was accidentally replaced by a backslash.
Why is this? Using other version of make (e.g. freepascal's make or
cygwin's), this did not happen. What's wrong with this? Could you check if
there is something wrong with the source program, somehow?

Thanks,
Wirawan