[cdt-dev] Re: [cdt-debug-dev] MBS cleanCommand for win32

[John MOULE <john.moule@xxxxxx>]

Thanks to Mikhail, Mikhail, Rekha and Giuseppe for suggestions.

cheers john

Sennikovsky, Mikhail wrote:
> Forwarding to cdt-core...
>
> Hi John,
>
> Yes, you should feel an enhancement request.
> An work-around you have for now is to provide a custom buildfile
> generator that would generate an appropriate clean command.
>
> Mikhail
>
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> [mailto:cdt-debug-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John MOULE
> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 4:39 PM
> To: CDT Debug developers list
> Subject: [cdt-debug-dev] MBS cleanCommand for win32
>
> Hi,
>
> I have created an MBS plugin for use with a custom toolset on multiple 
> host platforms. On win32 platforms customers do not have access to "rm" 
> or cygwin and we ship our own "make". My plugin.xml target for win32 is 
> specified thus:
>
>    cleanCommand="del /f /q "
>
> When Eclipse does a "make clean" Windows complains with the following:
>
>    del /f /q  ./helloworld.o  helloworld
>    Invalid switch - "helloworld.o".
>
> because Windows thinks the dot forward slash is a switch. Of course
> this command works in a command console if the object is quoted.
>
> I've searched bugzilla but couldn't find anything that seemed relevant. 
> Is there something I can tinker with to place quotes around my files? Or
>
> should this be an enhancement request.
>
> Any help gratefully received.
>
> Best rgds john
>
>
>
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