From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw" Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:33:37 +0200 Message-ID: <42CEAAE1.2050801@student.lu.se> References: <42CE8ADB.2000007@student.lu.se> <85eka9fi9d.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <42CEA077.8070202@student.lu.se> <85wto1e0p5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120841016 29152 80.91.229.2 (8 Jul 2005 16:43:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 16:43:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 08 18:43:26 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dqvwg-0002f3-Tc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:43:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dqvy7-0006gK-4U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:44:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DqvxO-0006NK-DK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:44:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dqvx9-0006Ho-Sp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:43:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dqvx4-0006CZ-EM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:43:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.98] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dqvtz-000166-4i; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:40:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.205.6) by pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42B813B0003332F4; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 18:33:37 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: <85wto1e0p5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:40652 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40652 David Kastrup wrote: >> I was thinking of an easier way of handling w32 file names. When >> >>trying to build with MSYS it fails just because of the file name >>Emacs got from somewhere is in w32 format. >> >> > >What does "got from somewhere" mean? Could you provide an example? > > Look under why you should avoid MSYS here: http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/w32-build-emacs.html#checking-setup In that example there are paths in MSYS format (ie unix format). However you can replace `pwd` with `pwd -W` and get those in w32 format. Then you get the problem I am thinking of. But thinking about it again this could perhaps be solved (worked around) by writing just a small exe that provides path info in Emacs style and compile this in configure.bat? Would that be possible? >emacs --eval '(do-something-with (pop command-line-args-left))' "$FILENAME" > > The problem is the strings are inside the eval in my example.