question about quoting of certain values..

[Stephan Beal]

Hi, all!

Please consider this output line (from make):

+ g++ ... -UNDEBUG -DDEBUG=1 '-DINCLUDE_SHELL_BINDINGS="jspdo.hpp"' ...

the interesting bit in the -DINCLUDE_SHELL_BINDINGS part. Those are declared
as:

  $(SHELL.LOCAL.O):
CPPFLAGS+=-DINCLUDE_SHELL_BINDINGS='"$(SHELL_BINDINGS_HEADER)"'

note the placement of the quotes. It appears that make is doing the extra
quoting/re-quoting. Is that the case? i.e. is that documented,
wlll-stay-thay-way behaviour i can depend on?

The quoting is absolutely correct (IMO), so i'm not complaining! i ask
because i would like to use a C++ class template name, e.g. -DMyType<Foo>,
in a similar part of the makefile, but i want to be damned certain that the
'<' and '>' characters aren't going to cause me Grief before i try that out.

:-?

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