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Re: m4 on native Windows
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: m4 on native Windows |
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Wed, 09 Jun 2021 21:55:49 +0200 |
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> > I'm still trying to figure out how the names differ. Can you confirm
> > what is output by:
> > src/m4 --help | head -n1
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> It is:
> Usage: C:\cygwin64\home\bruno\m4-2021-05-13\build-mingw64\src\m4.exe
> [OPTION]... [FILE]...
In fact, it depends on the program that invokes src/m4. The answer I gave
is valid when I use Cygwin's bash to execute the command. When I use
cmd.exe, the file name is *not* made absolute.
> A similar thing could be done here:
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> sed -e 's|[^ ]*\\m4\.exe|m4|' -e 's|^m4\.exe|m4|' -e 's|^/cygdrive/[^
> ]*/m4|m4|' | LC_ALL=C tr -d '\r'
This substitution will work, regardless how the invoking shell behaves
regarding the file names.
Bruno