On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 08:51:12PM -0700, "Blair P. Houghton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I've found the problem. > > By more careful use of the -d=flags option to make, I traced it down to the second > of two "subdirs" > targets, and then turned off the NOECHO command (by taking it out of the script line > in the Makefile > under the second subdirs target). > > Then, making only in the .../ext/B directory (as Yitzchak suggested), I got this > output: > > % make -f Makefile all > cd C && make -f Makefile all LIB="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio > .NET\Vc7\lib\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\FrameworkSDK\Lib\" LIBPERL_A="libperl" > LINKTYPE="dynamic" PREFIX="" OPTIMIZE="-O2" PASTHRU_DEFINE="" PASTHRU_INC="" > Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string > make: *** [subdirs] Error 2 > > Note the LIB variable. It's not the spaces that are glaring, it's that trailing > backslash before > the closing double-quote. Leave it to Microsoft to confuse a path with a string > that is part of the > computation of a path (they shoulda left the last slash off; it's only there as > step-saving cruft > for some string catenation that would probably be better written to do the slash > insertion itself > anyway; lamers).
Here's a quick workaround: --- perl-5.8.2/lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm.orig 2003-10-31 14:03:45.000000000 -0800 +++ perl-5.8.2/lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm 2003-12-28 20:46:33.231611200 -0800 @@ -3119,7 +3119,7 @@ my($sep) = $Is_VMS ? ',' : ''; $sep .= "\\\n\t"; - foreach $key (qw(LIB LIBPERL_A LINKTYPE PREFIX OPTIMIZE)) { + foreach $key (qw(LIBPERL_A LINKTYPE PREFIX OPTIMIZE)) { push @pasthru, "$key=\"\$($key)\""; } -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/