Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix cygwin install issues

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:09:07 -0700

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> OK.  It is better than dq, and the user can still work it around
> like this if she really wanted to:
> 
> 	make bindir="Anna'\\''s Home/bin"
> 
> I wish we had $(shellquote $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)) in make ;-).

Hmm... let's think about this for a second...

shellquote = '$(subst ','\'',$(1))'

$(call shellquote,$(whatever))

... seems to work just fine.

(No need to worry about ! since Make commands are always /bin/sh.)

	-hpa