Re: Re[2]: Make quoted strings problem running from cmd.exe...

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>]

Tadeusz is correct.  Nmake must be quoting the quotes before passing it to your
program.  GNUMake doesn't do that so your program doesn't see the quotes.

Sorry, unless you quote the quotes or stick with the shells provided by the
cygwin product then you ain't goin' a get what you expect.  However, the code
is available for you to change as you see fit.

Earnie.

--- Kevin Hill <kevin_hill@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> Dear Tad/Reader,
> 
> Thanks. I hear what you are saying, but spurred on by your suggestion I
> have asked both make and Microsoft's nmake to use my CmdLineLook
> executable as the shell. The results are interesting, as follows:
> 
> #-- Invocation of shell from GNUmake...
> 0       -F:/GAP/N......(reduced for readability)/CmdLineLook.exe-
> 1       -/c-
> 2       -CmdLineLook -i "BEGIN-
> 3       -{-
> 4       -$^W=1;-
> 5       -}"-
> # ------------------------------------
> 
> #-- Invocation of shell from nmake...
> 0       -F:\GAP\....(reduced for readability)\CmdLineLook.exe-
> 1       -/c-
> 2       -CmdLineLook-
> 3       --i-
> 4       -BEGIN { $^W=1; }-
> # ------------------------------------
> 
> Which of these looks correct? To me, the latter (nmake) one is what I
> would expect, where it parcels up the quoted text as one parameter. The
> splitting up in GNUmake is, to me, completely random. Any theories?
> 
> K.
> 
> ____________________Reply Separator____________________
> Subject:	Re: Make quoted strings problem running from cmd.exe...
> Author:	tad@comco.com
> Date:		17/08/99 14:40
> 
> 
> 
>      Kevin Hill wrote:
>      >
>      > Dear reader,
>      >
>      > I have Cygwin b20.1 (including make version 3.75) and NT4.0 sp4.
> I am
>      > trying to use make from within the normal cmd.exe of NT, rather
> than
>      > from within any of the cygwin shells. The problem I have ONLY
> happens
>      > when I run from cmd.exe; it works find from within sh.
>      .......
> 
>      Don't blame it on make - it is cmd.exe doing. Once shell parses the
>      inputline, make does what it can. cmd.exe is too stupid to properly
>      interpret quotes "" like true shell. Write small code and test VC++
> and
>      Cygwin gcc and see what actually is processed by cmd/shell and what
>      comes to your code. I suspect that cmd passes quotes, and nmake
>      compensates for it. It is consistent with DOS/NT/Win32 philosophy
> where
>      each program is responsible for interpreting *.*, and cmd.exe
> simply
>      passes them down.
> 
>      --
>      Tadeusz
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