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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ben Key <bkey76@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Supporting parameters that include the = character in configure.bat
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 04:14:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Q8pn6-0004dX-Oi@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinWcHY+sLhn2kzQd9eUPLy0O8wOaQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Ben Key on Sun, 10 Apr 2011 02:51:34 -0500)

> From: Ben Key <bkey76@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 02:51:34 -0500
> Cc: 
> 
> The key here is the usage of the ~ character between the % and the 1.  This
> essentially causes " characters around the parameter to be removed.  Thus
> when this batch file is called as follows
>   test.bat --cflags "-DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=100000" --cflags "-DTEST=1"
> the output is as follows
>   usercflags=-DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=100000 -DTEST=1
> 
> As long as the parameter is surrounded by " characters, the = character will
> not be treated as a separator.

Thanks!

> The major drawback of this is that it will not work on Windows 9x because
> command.com does not support this functionality.

This isn't a problem, because we don't support building Emacs on
Windows 9X anyway.

So please prepare a patch along these lines.  It should include a
corresponding addition to the "usage" text in the batch file and a
similar addition to instructions in nt/INSTALL.

Thanks again for working on this.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-10  8:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-10  7:51 Supporting parameters that include the = character in configure.bat Ben Key
2011-04-10  8:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-04-10  8:46   ` Ben Key
2011-04-10  9:49     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]       ` <BANLkTi=QekwZQLVSoMFE0sTO+RRGAGackQ@mail.gmail.com>
2011-04-10 16:36         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-12  0:17           ` Ben Key
2011-04-12  2:41             ` Ben Key
2011-04-12  5:08               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-13 23:17                 ` Ben Key
2011-04-14  5:11                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-14 10:38                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-04-15  0:56                       ` Ben Key
2011-04-15  9:45                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-12  2:48             ` Eli Zaretskii

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