Please do not replace system(LIST) with system(STR). All sorts of
complexities arise.
What is the exact value of $required? Is something maybe adding
quotation marks to it? That would fit the symptom.
On 4/14/09, Sam Dela Cruz <samm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Will,
>
> Thanks for the reply. Here's the error message I'm getting:
>
> Generating Parrot ...
> /usr/bin/perl build/gen_parrot.pl
>
> via svn...t Parrot r37980
> 'vn: Syntax error in revision argument '37980
>
> And I just tried it again, after changing line 47 to:
>
> system("svn checkout -r" . $required . "
> https://svn.parrot.org/parrot/trunkparrot";);
>
> I was able to do a checkout of parrot.
>
> Btw, my machine is running Ubuntu, Intrepid Ibex.
>
> Regards,
> Sam
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Will Coleda via RT <
> perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue Apr 14 01:44:39 2009, samm...@gmail.com wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I think this line is wrong:
>> > line 47: system(qw(svn checkout -r), $required , qw(
>> > https://svn.parrot.org/parrot/trunk parrot));
>> >
>> > all qw should be removed, in my ubuntu, i think what' s happening is
>> it's
>> > removing all the spaces, so I'm getting a bunch of error messages, i
>> think
>> > this is better:
>> > system("svn checkout -r" . $required . " " . "
>> > https://svn.parrot.org/parrot/trunk parrot");
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Sam
>>
>> Out of curiosity, what error messages are you getting?
>>
>> BTW, this command looks right to me, passing a list to system() instead
>> of a string avoids shell escaping issues.
>>
>> --
>> Will "Coke" Coleda
>>
>
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