Unfortunately, "pushd" is an inappropriate command to use when the
argument is quoted. It works just fine with "/" characters if the
argument is quoted...

For example:

    C:\Users\davidcole>pushd C:\Windows\System32

    C:\Windows\System32>pushd C:/dev
    The syntax of the command is incorrect.

    C:\Windows\System32>pushd "C:/dev"

    C:\dev>

It would be better to use a test command that **actually** fails when
a "/" path is a quoted entity....


HTH,
David C.




On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Kislinskiy, Stefan
<s.kislins...@dkfz-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> I factored out the code from cmOutputConverter::ConvertToOutputFormat() into 
> another helper method called ConvertDirectorySeparatorsForShell(), changed 
> the SHELL_PATH genex to accept only absolute paths, and changed its 
> documentation accordingly. I also added a BadSHELL_PATH test to the 
> RunCMake/GeneratorExpression tests, that use the SHELL_PATH genex with an 
> empty parameter as well as a relative path. I also fixed the TEST/CTEST typo 
> you discovered yesterday.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad King [mailto:brad.k...@kitware.com]
> Sent: Mittwoch, 23. September 2015 16:57
> To: Kislinskiy, Stefan
> Cc: cmake-developers@cmake.org
> Subject: Re: [cmake-developers] generator expression for path slash conversion
>
> On 09/23/2015 10:45 AM, Kislinskiy, Stefan wrote:
>> I see. I would suggest that I add another output flag to
>> cmOutputConverter like SHELL_NO_ESCAPE then. If this flag is passed to
>> ConvertToOutputFormat() instead of SHELL, the call of
>> EscapeForShell() will be circumvented. This way there wouldn't be code
>> duplication and we would still cover the MSYS case (drive letter
>> conversion).
>
> The conversion code in question is about 10 lines and could be factored out 
> into another helper method.  Then the genex impl could just use the helper 
> directly.
>
>> Isn't it possible to specify parameters for generator expressions?
>
> Yes.
>
>> How about something like $<SHELL_PATH:c:/this/is/an/example,ESCAPE>?
>
> Neat idea.  However, for now I'd rather not try to predict the use cases for 
> which such parameters will be needed.  Instead we should just make sure the 
> interface leaves room for future extension.  Since "," is allowed in paths we 
> cannot simply disallow it or blindly use it as a separator.  Therefore we 
> should have the actual path always be the last parameter.
>
> For now I think you can just require (with an error) that the value given to 
> SHELL_PATH as input must be an absolute path (cmSystemTools::FileIsFullPath). 
>  Then in the future we could recognize things like 
> $<SHELL_PATH:ESCAPE,c:/path> without ambiguity.  Please include test cases 
> for errors on relative paths (see Tests/RunCMake/GeneratorExpression).
>
> Thanks,
> -Brad
>
>
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