GNU Make Shellquote
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Sometimes you may have a filename that contains quotes & your usual
makefile routines breaks. For example, if you generate
index.Ukrayins'ka.html from index.Ukrayins'ka.md
& add index.Ukrayins'ka.html to clean variable, this classic
pattern won't work anymore:
.PHONY: clean
clean:
rm -rf $(clean)
because your shell will complain about a quote mismatch.
So you need to 'shellquote' a variable clean.
We can write a parameterized function in make that transforms 1 word into a safe shell-quoted string:
clean.shellquote = '$(subst ','\'',$(1))'
The Make manual has a nice example of a map function. That's all we
need: we transform each word from clean variable w/ the map function
that calls our clean.shellquote routine.
The complete example:
clean.map = $(foreach a,$(2),$(call $(1),$(a)))
clean.shellquote = '$(subst ','\'',$(1))'
# '# emacs font-lock
.PHONY: clean
clean:
rm -rf $(call clean.map,clean.shellquote,$(clean))
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Authors: ag