I've written a small bash script to invoke a make command.
The makefile expects args='<arguments to be passed to program>' argument. (i.e. make a args='--aaa 5 --bbb 6')
The problem is when I use the script to invoke the make command, the argument is truncated on its first white space.
For example, when executing make a args='--aaa 5' through the script, the args variable is '--aaa and not '--aaa 5'
I've also tried adding quotes and single quotes but the result is the same.
When I invoke the make command manually through terminal the, the args variable gets all the arguments and their values as expected.
Here is the script call :
args="args='--aaa 5 --bbb 6'"
make a ${args}
You have to double-quote $args to preserve the whitespace.
make a "$args"
I'm assuming the Makefile correctly handles the value once it receives it.