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pre-build stripping backslashes in SubWCRev cmd [message #735082]

Mon, 10 October 2011 21:35

Bret Missing name

Messages: 7
Registered: October 2011

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I'm using Eclipse Indigo for C/C++ on Windows 7 and I have the following pre-build command in my project:

SubWCRev ${workspace_loc:/IMProbe} ${workspace_loc:/IMProbe/svnversion.tmpl} ${workspace_loc:/IMProbe/svnversion.h}

This generates the following error message:

SubWCRev C:\Users\bforeman\workspace\IMProbe C:\Users\bforeman\workspace\IMProbe\svnversion.tmpl C:\Users\bforeman\workspace\IMProbe\svnversion.h
File 'C:UsersbforemanworkspaceIMProbesvnversion.tmpl' does not exist

If I paste "SubWCRev C:\Users\bforeman\workspace\IMProbe C:\Users\bforeman\workspace\IMProbe\svnversion.tmpl C:\Users\bforeman\workspace\IMProbe\svnversion.h" into a command shell it runs perfectly.

Somehow, the backslashes are being stripped when the command is run from inside the pre-builder, evidently by /bin/sh. Does anyone have an idea how to prevent this?

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Re: pre-build stripping backslashes in SubWCRev cmd [message #735863 is a reply to message #735082]

Wed, 12 October 2011 22:58

Bret Missing name

Messages: 7
Registered: October 2011

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So it looks like the pre-builder path computation is failing to delimit backslashes before it passes commands to the bash shell. So ${workspace_loc} gets expanded to C:\Users\bforeman\workspace when it should be C:\\Users\\bforeman\\workspace. Without the delimitting backslash, the bash shell strips them.

Does anyone know if there is a flag I can set in Eclipse to correct this behavior or to signal bash not to strip the backslashes?

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