X-Original-To: pgsql-interfaces-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 468C19FA621 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 21:32:42 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 01237-02 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 21:32:37 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from floppy.pyrenet.fr (floppy.pyrenet.fr [194.116.145.2]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6396F9FA5EA for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 21:32:37 -0300 (ADT) Received: by floppy.pyrenet.fr (Postfix, from userid 106) id AFB6831DC3; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 02:32:35 +0200 (MET DST) From: ljb X-Newsgroups: pgsql.interfaces Subject: Re: Building psql.exe using the free Borland compiler Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 00:32:28 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Hub.Org Networking Services Lines: 10 Message-ID: References: <200605310916.k4V9GwT29127@candle.pha.pa.us> X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.hub.org User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200605/20 X-Sequence-Number: 6141 pgman@candle.pha.pa.us wrote: >... > As far as echo, I think you are right that the Win32 command processor > is the one handling that, but I assumed the backslashes were handled by > the Makefile, hence the need for \#. Sort of. It looks to me like \# is handled by make when reading the Makefile, resulting in a # which is not the start of a Makefile comment. But it also seems that \ followed by anything else is not handled specially, but simply passed through to the command.