Enrico Forestieri wrote: >> configure_command_ = os::python() + ' ' + >> quoteName(configure_script.toFilesystemEncoding()) + >> with_version_suffix(); > > You are right. A parser would be needed, and it is going to become > cumbersome and error prone.
It just so happens that I wrote one using Boost.Spirit a couple of years ago. Never got round to integrating it into LyX unfortunately. It's a formally correct parser of a subset of sh. Certainly capable of handling our command definition strings. See http://www.lyx.org/~leeming/libs/child/doc/html/parse_pseudo_command_line.html The code's been languishing in the boost/child libs/child subdirectories of http://www.lyx.org/~leeming Feel free to grab it. If you're interested I can certainly walk you through it all. -- Angus
