Re: make :Q breakage

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On May 26, 10:13pm, uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost (Valery Ushakov) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: make :Q breakage

| On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 18:50:15 +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| 
| > In article <20180526183207.E301C17FDB9%rebar.astron.com@localhost>,
| > Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost> wrote:
| > >
| > >Also the common use of :Q right now is to quote for recursive invocations
| > >of make, so I am going to have to go and change all the :Q's to :Qm's in
| > >the tree.
| > 
| > I did not realize how popular :Q was :-(...
| > 
| > $ find . \( -name \*.mk -or -name Makefile\* \) -exec fgrep :Q {} + | wc
| >      438    1729   32941
| > 
| > Good thing that not many cases contain $'s otherwise we would have noticed
| > this sooner. Pkgsrc uses :Q in a ton of places too.
| > 
| > Given that most of those uses are recursive make invocations and that
| > they will need to be changed to :Qm the moment a variable passed contains
| > a $, I revise my proposal to make :Q quote '$' by default, and make
| > :Qs retain the original behavior for the few cases that need it.
| > 
| > How does that sound?
| 
| I'm very very strongly against chaging :Q in backward-incompatible
| ways.  Also pkgsrc uses it a lot for plain shell where its old
| semantic (just the shell-quoting) is the correct and intended one.

Fine, I am going to make it :q and change it only in the base tree.
I will also fix the description of :q. Thanks for all the help.

christos