Re: [Gcl-devel] gclm.bat

[Vadim V. Zhytnikov]

Mike Thomas ?????:
> Hi Vadim.
>
> | One suggestion about gcl.bat script.
> | It is good idea to place "" around %PATH%
> | This helps if path has directories with spaces.
> | In this case original path command in the
> | gcl.bat fails.
>
> I'm don't get that on Win XP eg:

Ah, you are right.  If path contains spaces then

path <foo>;%path%

works fine on Win XP bit fails on Win Me
with the error message "Too many parameters...".
The bad news is that

path <foo>;"%path%"

works on Win Me but don't work on Win XP.
On XP this command scrambles path variable
since "" remains in it unexpanded.  I really
don't know what to do?  Two separate
scripts for Win XP/2K and Win Me/9X?
Can installed handle this?

On the other hand I noticed that under Win Me
all programs tends not to add pieces with
spaces to the patch.  They try to use
short (like PROGRA~1) alternatives.
I noticed problem with

path <foo>;"%path%"

only after installation of MS SQL server
which added directory with spaces to the
path.

> C:\Documents and Settings\miketh>path a b;c d;ef
> C:\Documents and Settings\miketh>echo %path%
> a b;c d;ef
> C:\Documents and Settings\miketh>path blah blah;%path%
> C:\Documents and Settings\miketh>echo %path%
> blah blah;a b;c d;ef
>
> Here is the path which gcl.bat passes in to GCL under Windows XP (and from
> past experience, also W2000):
>
>
> > (si::getenv "PATH")
>
>
> "C:\\Progra~1\\GCL-2.6.1\\mingw\\bin;C:\\lang\\texmf\\miktex\\bin\\;C:\\lang
> \\ms
> dotnetSDK\\Bin\\;C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio
> .NET\\Common7\\IDE\\
> ;C:\\WINDOWS\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v1.0.3705\\;C:\\Program
> Files\\Microsoft
>  Visual Studio
> .NET\\Vc7\\bin\\;C:\\lang\\Tcl-8.4.1.0\\bin;C:\\WINDOWS\\system32
> ;C:\\WINDOWS;C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\Wbem;C:\\Program Files\\Common
> Files\\Adapte
> c
> Shared\\System;C:\\lang\\ocaml\\bin;C:\\lang\\texmf\\miktex\\bin\\;C:\\lang\
> \M
> SDOTN~1\\Bin\\;C:\\PROGRA~1\\MICROS~1.NET\\Common7\\IDE\\;C:\\WINDOWS\\MICRO
> S~1.
> NET\\FRAMEW~1\\V10~1.370\\;C:\\PROGRA~1\\MICROS~1.NET\\Vc7\\bin\\;C:\\lang\\
> TCL-
> 84~1.0\\bin;C:\\WINDOWS\\system32;C:\\WINDOWS;C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\Wbem;C:
> \\PR
> OGRA~1\\COMMON~1\\ADAPTE~1\\System;C:\\lang\\ocaml\\bin;c:\\lang\\sml-nj-110
> .9.1
> \\bin;c:\\lang\\Palmdev\\apache-ant-1.5.4\\bin"
>
> Are you getting something different on Win 98 or ME?
>
> | Finally I wonder about gclm.bat.  Strange but
> | it doesn't work to me on both Win XP and Win Me.
> | Maybe we should replace it by a simpler script -
> | something like gcl.bat but with GCL installation
> | path in some environment variable?
>
> It works for me under NT2000 and XP but I can't test under ME - you're
> probably right though - it's something I picked up off the web which does
> some tricky stuff I don't really understand to establish the current working
> directory.  It isn't meant to be used in a release install of GCL - more of
> a convenience for developers.
>
> What goes wrong for you when you use it on XP and ME?

Sorry, I probably did something wrong.  In real life gclm.bat
works to me fine on Win XP.
On Win Me it issues several "Syntactic error".
But even this error I was able to get only after converting
gclm.bat into DOS text file encoding. Without it it just
silently exits. Win Me/9X command interpreter can't handle
files in UNIX encoding (Win XP interpreter can).

> Cheers
>
> Mike Thomas.
>
>
>
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