Space in compiler file name

Space in compiler file name

[Brian Elmegaard]

Hi,

On windows I have a compiler installed under c:\Program
Files\dna\bin. This path is set to dna.bin-directory with customize
for the given mode.

When I run I get:
c:/program files/dna/bin/dna.exe 
'c:/program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

The compile command is set by:
  (setq compile-command 
		     (progn (concat dna-bin-directory "/" 
				    dna-executable-name " "
				    (file-name-nondirectory
				     buffer-file-name)))) 
  (setq dna-input-buffer-name (buffer-name))
  (compile compile-command)


How can I make dna-bin-directory contain spaces and pass this to
compile?

tia,
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Re: Space in compiler file name

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Brian Elmegaard <brian@rkspeed-rugby.dk>
> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:55:35 +0100
> 
> When I run I get:
> c:/program files/dna/bin/dna.exe 
> 'c:/program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> 
> The compile command is set by:
>   (setq compile-command 
> 		     (progn (concat dna-bin-directory "/" 
> 				    dna-executable-name " "
> 				    (file-name-nondirectory
> 				     buffer-file-name)))) 
>   (setq dna-input-buffer-name (buffer-name))
>   (compile compile-command)
> 
> 
> How can I make dna-bin-directory contain spaces and pass this to
> compile?

Did you try to quote the file name which has the embedded spaces?

compile-command is conceptually a string that you would type at the
shell's prompt, so you need to quote or escape any characters special
for the shell, as you would when you type the command interactively.

Re: Space in compiler file name

[Brian Elmegaard]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Did you try to quote the file name which has the embedded spaces?

Yes, I have tried:
c:/program files/dna/bin/dna.exe 
'c:/program files/dna/bin/dna.exe'
"c:/program files/dna/bin/dna.exe" 
c:/program\ files/dna/bin/dna.exe 

> compile-command is conceptually a string that you would type at the
> shell's prompt, so you need to quote or escape any characters special
> for the shell, as you would when you type the command interactively.

I can do it in the windows shell. So emacs somehow interferes when it
passes this to the shell.

How could I escape or quote a space in a shell command?

tia,
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Re: Space in compiler file name

[Reiner Steib]

On Mon, Feb 20 2006, Brian Elmegaard wrote:

> Yes, I have tried:
> c:/program files/dna/bin/dna.exe 
> 'c:/program files/dna/bin/dna.exe'
> "c:/program files/dna/bin/dna.exe" 
> c:/program\ files/dna/bin/dna.exe 

How about the DOS name trick?  "c:/progra~1/dna/bin/dna.exe"?  AFAIK,
the "dir" command lists the sort 8.3 names.

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Re: Space in compiler file name

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Brian Elmegaard <brian@rkspeed-rugby.dk>
> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:42:56 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Did you try to quote the file name which has the embedded spaces?
> 
> Yes, I have tried:
> c:/program files/dna/bin/dna.exe 
> 'c:/program files/dna/bin/dna.exe'
> "c:/program files/dna/bin/dna.exe" 
> c:/program\ files/dna/bin/dna.exe 

The one with ".." should have worked.  Please show the full
customization command that uses double quotes, perhaps something was
wrong in how you escaped quotes within a string.

Also, do you have some port of a Unix shell (sh.exe) installed?  If
so, is it by any chance a Cygwin port?

> I can do it in the windows shell. So emacs somehow interferes when it
> passes this to the shell.

Does it work to invoke that compiler via "M-!" (again, with quoting as
if you were typing at the shell's prompt)?

> How could I escape or quote a space in a shell command?

With double quotes.  Except for bugs or cockpit errors, it should have
worked.

Re: Space in compiler file name

[Brian Elmegaard]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> How about the DOS name trick?  

That works, but is not what what I want.


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Re: Space in compiler file name

[Brian Elmegaard]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> The one with ".." should have worked.  Please show the full
> customization command that uses double quotes, perhaps something was
> wrong in how you escaped quotes within a string.

Thanks, Eli, you found my mistake. 
The problem is that I concatenate the directory path in double quotes
and the file name to get: 
"c:/program files/dna/bin"/dna.exe
which obviously doesnøt work. 

Is there a neat way to append inside the quotes?

Is it correct that emacs outputs:

'c:/program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

when this error is encountered? 

> Except for bugs or cockpit errors, it should have worked.

:-)

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Re: Space in compiler file name

[Kevin Rodgers]

Brian Elmegaard wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>The one with ".." should have worked.  Please show the full
>>customization command that uses double quotes, perhaps something was
>>wrong in how you escaped quotes within a string.
> 
> 
> Thanks, Eli, you found my mistake. 
> The problem is that I concatenate the directory path in double quotes
> and the file name to get: 
> "c:/program files/dna/bin"/dna.exe
> which obviously doesnøt work. 
> 
> Is there a neat way to append inside the quotes?

Since the directory name itself does not have quotes, I think the right
thing to do is to add the quotes when you generate the shell command,
which is what requires them:

(setq dna-bin-directory "c:/program files/dna/bin")

(setq compile-command
       (format "\"%s\" %s"
               (expand-file-name dna-executable-name dna-bin-directory)
               (file-name-nondirectory buffer-file-name)))

Or perhaps (1) make compile-command a buffer local variable, since its
value is specific to the buffer and (2) use the shell-quote-argument
utility to handle both the program and the file:

(set (make-local-variable 'compile-command)
      (concat (shell-quote-argument
               (expand-file-name dna-executable-name dna-bin-directory))
              " "
              (shell-quote-argument
               (expand-file-name (file-name-nondirectory 
buffer-file-name)))))

> Is it correct that emacs outputs:
> 
> 'c:/program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> 
> when this error is encountered? 

That looks like a message from your shell, not Emacs.

-- 
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Re: Space in compiler file name

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Brian Elmegaard <brian@rkspeed-rugby.dk>
> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:14:25 +0100
> 
> Is there a neat way to append inside the quotes?

(concat "\"" diectory file "\"")

> Is it correct that emacs outputs:
> 
> 'c:/program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> 
> when this error is encountered? 

This message comes from cmd.exe, the Windows shell, not from Emacs.
Emacs just shows you what the shell displayed, so you know what went
wrong.

Re: Space in compiler file name

[Brian Elmegaard]

Thanks a lot.

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Re: Space in compiler file name

[Brian Elmegaard]

Thanks.
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RE: Space in compiler file name

[Dave Humphries]

Have you tried with back slashes (maybe even double back slashes) and
quotes? 

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Did you try to quote the file name which has the embedded spaces?

Yes, I have tried:
c:/program files/dna/bin/dna.exe
'c:/program files/dna/bin/dna.exe'
"c:/program files/dna/bin/dna.exe" 
c:/program\ files/dna/bin/dna.exe 

> compile-command is conceptually a string that you would type at the 
> shell's prompt, so you need to quote or escape any characters special 
> for the shell, as you would when you type the command interactively.

I can do it in the windows shell. So emacs somehow interferes when it
passes this to the shell.

How could I escape or quote a space in a shell command?

tia,
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Re: Space in compiler file name

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:30:03 +1100
> From: "Dave Humphries" <dave.humphries@dytech.com.au>
> Cc: 
> 
> Have you tried with back slashes (maybe even double back slashes) and
> quotes? 

That will work only if he has a port of Unixy shell installed.  Native
Windows shells don't understand quoting whitespace with backslashes.

Re: Space in compiler file name

[Brian Elmegaard]

"Dave Humphries" <dave.humphries@dytech.com.au> writes:

> Have you tried with back slashes (maybe even double back slashes) and
> quotes? 

Yes, now I have. And it didn't help.

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