Fwd: RE: problems passing -DPARAM="String" from sh

[Earnie Boyd]

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To : "'Earnie Boyd'" <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
Subject : RE: problems passing -DPARAM="String" from sh
>From : Gerard Blais <gblais at nuance dot com>
Date : Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:06:06 -0400
Reply-to : gblais at nuance dot com

Hi Earnie, it does work fine with B20 (just tried it).  It does not work in
the latest cygwin version only when using a variable ($SOURCE).  When the
command is specified directly in the shell script, it works fine.

i.e.

#!/bin/sh
SOURCE="-DPARAM=\"This String\" file.cpp"
icl $SOURCE                                          # This line doesn't
work.
icl -DPARAM="This String" file.cpp                   # This line works fine.


I tried your suggestion of adding double quotes but it does not make a
difference, the space is still a problem.  Oh well, back to B20 I guess,
bummer.  If you find out something related to this problem, please let me
know.

Thanks for your help.

Gerard

-----Original Message-----
From: Earnie Boyd [ mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com ]
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 9:07 PM
To: gblais@nuance.com; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: problems passing -DPARAM="String" from sh


--- Gerard Blais <gblais@nuance.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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