From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Jeff Clough <jeff@jeffclough.net>
Cc: emacs-help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: eshell command substitution?
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2023 17:46:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y1dk50jr.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87cyuwyj8y.fsf@jeffclough.net> (Jeff Clough's message of "Sat, 23 Dec 2023 11:30:05 -0500")
On Sat, 23 Dec 2023 11:30:05 -0500 Jeff Clough <jeff@jeffclough.net> wrote:
> Jeff Clough <jeff@jeffclough.net> writes:
>
>> Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:
>>
>>> This should work (see (info "(eshell) Dollars Expansion")):
>>>
>>> $ g++ base.cpp -o base ${pkg-config gtkmm-3.0 --cflags --libs}
>>>
>>> Steve Berman
>>
>> Progress! Running that command, I get the proper output from pkg-config,
>> but it's wrapped in single quotes, which the compiler doesn't like.
>
> Wait, no. No, it's not. It's outputting exactly as it should.
>
> If I do this in gnome-terminal, it works...
>
> $ g++ -g -o base base.cpp `pkg-config gtkmm-3.0 --cflags --libs}`
>
> I can run the call to pkg-config by itself, and I get the endless line
> of options I expect.
>
> If I run this in eshell, it doesn't work...
>
> $ g++ -g -o base base.cpp ${pkg-config gtkmm-3.0 --cflags --libs}
>
> I get "g++: error: unrecognized command-line option '...'"
>
> With the enless line of options in quotes, but that's just the compiler
> quoting at me.
I get that with when the pkg-config command is wrapped in backticks, but
with ${} the compilation succeeds for me.
> If I do...
>
> ${pkg-config gtkmm-3.0 --cflags --libs}
>
> In eshell, I get the same result as if I ran pkg-config in
> gnome-terminal.
>
> I'm even more confused.
Strange.
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-23 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-23 15:39 eshell command substitution? Jeff Clough
2023-12-23 15:58 ` Stephen Berman
2023-12-23 16:12 ` Jeff Clough
2023-12-23 16:29 ` Stephen Berman
2023-12-23 16:34 ` Jeff Clough
2023-12-23 16:30 ` Jeff Clough
2023-12-23 16:46 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2023-12-31 2:19 ` Steven Allen
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