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Re: quoting hell with space in download location

To: Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>
Subject: Re: quoting hell with space in download location
From: David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:53:08 +0000

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:16:22PM +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
 > The := syntax is usually used as ${FOO:%.c=%.o}, so any percent
 > character is interpreted specially, as documented in the make(1) man page.

Ugh. (When was that (mis)feature added to make?)

Why not use :S/// or :C///?

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost

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