X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_YW,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:24:42 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin (1.7.8 and other versions) problems with globbing when invoked from DOS/Windows with nested quotes Message-ID: <20110319062442.GA22795@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4D83D60C DOT 3080702 AT cygwin DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:47:12PM -0400, David Boyce wrote: >On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> On 3/18/2011 2:39 PM, Alex Khripin wrote: >> If you're using a native Windows 'make' with a Cywgin shell, you're better >> off making your tools consistent. ?Quoting mechanisms for Windows do not >> align with those used by Cygwin/Linux/Unix, so things are already >> problematic. >> Passing in a DOS path to a Cygwin shell and expecting the output to be >> properly quoted for a Windows version of 'make' is just asking for trouble. >> So I'd recommend staying on one side of the fence or the other if you want >> to minimize headaches. > >That's the expected - and generally reasonable - answer from the >Cygwin side, but it's worth noting that GNU make documents this combo >as being workable. From the README.W32 file in the source package: > > Good news! Make now has native support for Cygwin sh. To enable, > define the HAVE_CYGWIN_SHELL in config.h and rebuild make > from scratch. This version of make tested with B20.1 of Cygwin. > Do not define BATCH_MODE_ONLY_SHELL if you use HAVE_CYGWIN_SHELL. Even if it is supposed to be workable it's not a combination that's supported here. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple