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-rw-r--r--tests/ChangeLog3
-rw-r--r--tests/scripts/features/escape11
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tests/ChangeLog b/tests/ChangeLog
index aa572d3..cc1724c 100644
--- a/tests/ChangeLog
+++ b/tests/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
2012-09-09 Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org>
+ * scripts/features/escape: Check that backslashes before
+ non-special characters are not removed.
+
* scripts/features/utf8: New test for UTF-8 support.
See Savannah bug #36529.
diff --git a/tests/scripts/features/escape b/tests/scripts/features/escape
index 0d4427e..9b2adb5 100644
--- a/tests/scripts/features/escape
+++ b/tests/scripts/features/escape
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ $description = "Test various types of escaping in makefiles.";
$details = "\
Make sure that escaping of ':' works in target names.
Make sure escaping of whitespace works in target names.
-Make sure that escaping of '#' works.";
+Make sure that escaping of '#' works.
+Make sure that backslash before non-special characters are kept.";
close(MAKEFILE);
@@ -62,5 +63,13 @@ foo foo\\:bar foo\\\\\\:bar foo\\\\\\\\\\:bar: ; @echo '$@'
!,
'', "foo:bar\nfoo\\:bar\nfoo\\\\:bar\nfoo\n");
+# Test backslash before non-special chars: should be kept as-is
+
+run_make_test(q!
+all: ..\foo
+.DEFAULT: ; @echo '$@'
+!,
+ '', '..\foo');
+
# This tells the test driver that the perl test script executed properly.
1;