This is the mail archive of the cygwin-patches mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: [PATCH] Expand $CYGWIN error_start processing


What about the token side of things? <program-name> and <process-id>?
For my use case, its important that I can do something like that too.

On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Christopher Faylor <> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 12:25:40AM +0000, Ray Donnelly wrote:
>>I want to use QtCreator as my debugger but the hardcoded
>>nature of error_start makes that impossible.
>>
>>This change allows a formatted commandline to be used where
>>'|' is used to represent spaces and <program-name> and
>><process-id> are special tokens.
>>
>>In my case, I set my CYGWIN env. var to
>>error_start:C:/Qt/bin/qtcreator.exe|-debug|<process-id>
>>
>>.. note, QtCreator doesn't work if passed the program name
>>and must be invoked with the -debug option.
>>
>>Ray Donnelly (1):
>>  * winsup/cygwin/exceptions.cc: Expand $CYGWIN error_start
>>    processing so that custom commandlines can be passed to
>>    the debugger program using '|' as an argument delimiter
>>    and <program-name> and <process-id> as special tokens.
>>
>> winsup/cygwin/exceptions.cc | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>> 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> Thanks for the patch but adding a new argument delimiter or way to quote
> is not something that I'm too keen on.

I didn't add a new way to quote (not that any way existed before), just
a substitute argument delimiter using '|'. It's difficult to get double
quotes and spaces into env. vars, so I worked around that
difficulty in what I think is a sensible way.

>
> I have just added, in CVS, the ability to do this:
>
> set CYGWIN=error_start="blah whatever \"more stuff'" and more"
>

Great, but what about <program-name> and <process-id>, that is the substantial
part of the patch. I can't hook up QtCreator with the fixed arguments that are
added currently, QtCreator doesn't care for the program-name and only works if
presented with <-debug process-id>

> (The above is CMD quoting style of course)
>
> cgf


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]