%% David Boyce <dsb@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
db> What's the argument for allowing whitespace at all (aside from
db> backward compatibility of course)?
I dunno. You'd have to ask those who allowed it in the first place,
such that we have a backward compatibility issue :).
db> SHELL := env FOO=BAR myscript -comment "this is what I propose to do"
Right. The only option possible would be to do as I suggested before,
and run the equivalent of:
system("$(SHELL) -c <commandline>");
Which is obviously problematic to do directly like that since you have
correctly quote <commandline> first (although GNU make does do that now
so...). I just can't see that this is worthwhile.
One thing I did discover looking at this code is that there's a lot of
special casing in this area for DOS, Windows, Amiga, and VMS... it
scares me to do too much messing around in here. I guess those folks
will just have to come back with fixes for things that broke.
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