Re: quoting hell with space in download location

[Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>]

David Holland schrieb:
> 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?)

That's long ago, namely 1994-03-05.

Roland