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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 18:07:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: problems passing -DPARAM="String" from sh
To: gblais AT nuance DOT com, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- Gerard Blais <gblais AT nuance DOT com> wrote:
> The following sh script works fine with cygnus B20 but causes an error with
> the latests cygwin.
> 

I would be really surprised if this worked in B20.  It's always been a problem.

> #!/bin/sh
> SOURCE="-DPARAM=\"Stringfirstpart Stringsecondpart\" file.cpp"

Try:
SOURCE="-DPARAM=\"\"\"Stringfirstpart Stringsecondpart\"\"\" file.cpp"
icl $SOURCE

You might also try quoting the space.

Cheers,

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