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Re: nested backticks in Makefile

On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 10:40:10PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > I only meant:
> > 
> > CROSS_SYSTEM_HEADER_DIR='$(shell echo "$(gcc_tooldir)/sys-include")'
> 
> I figured you meant that.  Can you think of an example that would
> benefit from this quoting?

$(gcc_tooldir) starts with $(libsubdir) starts with $(libdir) which
will come from $(prefix), so there's an unquoted $(prefix) there.

../gcc/configure --prefix=/usr/local/"where * am * i" will thus lead
to $(shell echo /usr/local/where * am * i/sys-include), which will
wildcard.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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