Den 2010-09-02 16:02 skrev Charles Wilson: > On 9/2/2010 9:06 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: >> However, my previous suggestion with a naive_slashify instead of >> naive_backslashify doesn't work either since MSYS turns @c:/foobar into >> @c;c:\msys\1.0\foobar (or something similar, that was from memory) which >> we must avoid at all cost. cygpath -m (instead of -w) is fine on Cygwin >> though since Cygwin doesn't clobber @c:/foobar "for us". >> >> Maybe we can work around this by sanitizing the input files in ar-lib, >> but that seems a bit horrible to me... I'll see if I can fix this >> somehow. Suggestions welcome. > > Actually, I think MSYS's heuristic for determining whether an argument > contains a path -- and whether that path is already a dos-style one -- > should be improved so that args which match the regex > '^...@[[:alpha:]]:[/\]' are understood as dos-style abspaths. > > I'll look into that.
That would be nice indeed. > Oh, wait. > > We'd also need to add exceptions for all of MSVC's command switches, > which prohibit spaces between the switch and that path: -FoC:/bob/, > -FeD:/fred, etc. Ick. > > I dunno if that's worth the effort -- or if it would even be accepted. > After all, MSYS's reason for existence is to support MinGW, not MSVC... > I could justify adding the '@' heuristic, because MinGW ar can use it, > but the rest... > > What do you think, Peter? The rest is handled by the compile script (in automake) in my case... Cheers, Peter
