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From: mmengel@cuuxb.ATT.COM (~XT4103000~Marc Mengel~C25~G25~6184~)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: cpp - the C language preprocessor
Summary: Quoting strikes again
Keywords: cpp
Message-ID: <1945@cuuxb.ATT.COM>
Date: 27 Jul 88 14:30:36 GMT
References: <173@trevan.UUCP>
Reply-To: mmengel@cuuxb.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE)
Organization: AT&T, Data Systems Group, Lisle, IL
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In article <173@trevan.UUCP> trevor@trevan.UUCP writes:
>
>	Please can someone tell me how I can use the -D option to define
>a name with a space in it ie 
>
>#define fred xxxx yyyy
>
>	I have tried alot of combinations like -Dfred='xxxx yyyy' but
>nothing seems to work. This is using Microport System V/286.

I am assuming this is breaking in a Makefile, since that works
on most systems I have seen; problem is, in a Makefile, make strips
off the quotes an hands the option to the shell without them; so
you end up doing someting bizarre like
CFLAGS= "-Dfred='xxx yyy'"

so make eats the ""s and the shell still gets handed the ''s


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