RE: Cygwin (1.7.8 and other versions) problems with globbing when invoked from DOS/Windows with nested quotes

2011-03-20 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Larry Hall (Cygwin) sent the following at Friday, March 18, 2011 6:01 PM >On 3/18/2011 2:39 PM, Alex Khripin wrote: >> Short summary: getting nested quotes in an argument through to a >> Cygwin process from DOS is problematic, and there does not seem to beif you >> must >> any detailed spec for ho

Re: Cygwin (1.7.8 and other versions) problems with globbing when invoked from DOS/Windows with nested quotes

2011-03-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
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 mechanis

Re: Cygwin (1.7.8 and other versions) problems with globbing when invoked from DOS/Windows with nested quotes

2011-03-18 Thread Charles Wilson
On 3/18/2011 11:47 PM, David Boyce wrote: > 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 o

Re: Cygwin (1.7.8 and other versions) problems with globbing when invoked from DOS/Windows with nested quotes

2011-03-18 Thread David Boyce
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/Uni

Re: Cygwin (1.7.8 and other versions) problems with globbing when invoked from DOS/Windows with nested quotes

2011-03-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/18/2011 2:39 PM, Alex Khripin wrote: Hi, Short summary: getting nested quotes in an argument through to a Cygwin process from DOS is problematic, and there does not seem to be any detailed spec for how to escape quotes correctly. Backslash characters seem to be spuriously generated. If yo

Cygwin (1.7.8 and other versions) problems with globbing when invoked from DOS/Windows with nested quotes

2011-03-18 Thread Alex Khripin
Hi, Short summary: getting nested quotes in an argument through to a Cygwin process from DOS is problematic, and there does not seem to be any detailed spec for how to escape quotes correctly. Backslash characters seem to be spuriously generated. I'm working on a build system (GNU make, Windows b