Issue with run.exe and PWD with spaces since last update (Cygwin 1.7.21)

[Charles Wilson]

On 7/17/2013 11:52 AM, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 7/17/2013 10:54 AM, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> On 7/17/2013 10:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> Can you quickly check if that works?  If so, we have a bit less pressure
>>> to fix libcmain.
>>
>> Seems to work for run2.exe.  Stay tuned for checkX.exe and run.exe.
>
> I've uploaded run2-0.4.2-2 as a test release for both 32bit and 64bit.
>
> However, run is more complicated; most of the application code is
> actually in WinMain.  I've been meaning to refactor it more along the
> lines of run2, but never got around to it. Looks like I now have a
> reason...but it'll take a bit longer to do, and I won't really have time
> to address it until Saturday.

Until then, users of run.exe affected by this problem can use run2.exe 
(today's new version) with almost the same effect:

1. create an XML file describing the program you want to launch. Here's 
an example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?>
<Run2Config
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="run2.xsd">
   <SelfOptions />
   <Global>
     <Environment />
     <Target filename="/usr/bin/mintty.exe" startin="~">
       <Arg>-e /bin/bash -!-login</Arg>
     </Target>
   </Global>
</Run2Config>

2. Make sure all the arguments you want to pass to the target program 
are represented in (the|one of the) <Arg /> elements.  Be sure that all 
sequences of two '-' characters are replaced by -!- (see -!-login, above).

3. Create a shortcut with the following target:
C:\cygwin\bin\run2.exe /cygwin/path/to/your/xml/file

Enjoy.  (Try

C:\cygwin\bin\run2.exe --debug=3 --notty /cygwin/path/to/your/xml/file

if it doesn't work).

--
Chuck



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