"H. Peter Anvin" [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
... I suspect it might be
the responsibility of the user to quote them if she chooses to
set bindir or DESTDIR to a funky value, like this:
$ make bindir="'My Documents\Programs'"
I don't think that's the right approach.
$(INSTALL) -d -m755 '$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)'
... at least handles everything except embedded single quotes.
OK. It is better than dq, and the user can still work it around
like this if she really wanted to:
make bindir="Anna'\\''s Home/bin"
I wish we had $(shellquote $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)) in make ;-).