* Cygwin bash script removing equal sign
@ 2019-04-25 16:11 Peter Palaparthy
2019-04-25 19:12 ` Eliot Moss
2019-04-25 19:26 ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker
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From: Peter Palaparthy @ 2019-04-25 16:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Cygwin bash script is removing equals sign from command call. How do I
escape it so that = is sent to command?
I tried different things like escaping = with \ and enclosing it with ""
and '' but none of them worked.
*Here is the relevant command in my makefile.*
*$(elabcmd) = $(XELAB_DEFAULT) \-generic VERSION=10*
*compile:$(elabcmd)*
*Here is the result:*
cygwin prompt:> make compile
*Running: xelab.exe -generic VERSION 10*
*(note that the equal sign is not there)*
I want
*xelab.exe -generic VERSION=10*
Thanks for any help.
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* Re: Cygwin bash script removing equal sign
2019-04-25 16:11 Cygwin bash script removing equal sign Peter Palaparthy
@ 2019-04-25 19:12 ` Eliot Moss
2019-04-25 19:26 ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker
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From: Eliot Moss @ 2019-04-25 19:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 4/25/2019 12:11 PM, Peter Palaparthy wrote:
> Cygwin bash script is removing equals sign from command call. How do I
> escape it so that = is sent to command?
>
> I tried different things like escaping = with \ and enclosing it with ""
> and '' but none of them worked.
>
> *Here is the relevant command in my makefile.*
>
>
> *$(elabcmd) = $(XELAB_DEFAULT) \-generic VERSION=10*
>
>
> *compile:$(elabcmd)*
>
> *Here is the result:*
>
> cygwin prompt:> make compile
> *Running: xelab.exe -generic VERSION 10*
>
> *(note that the equal sign is not there)*
>
> I want
> *xelab.exe -generic VERSION=10*
- I am not sure you need the \ on the -
- I wonder about the $(elabcmd) = ... My expectation would
be elabcmd = ...
- compile: ... is giving a dependency. It seems you want a rule.
In make, this would look more like:
compile: xelab.exe
xelab.exe -generic VERSION=10
Making this more parameterized:
elabcmd = xelab.exe -generic VERSION=10
compile: xelab.exe
$(elabcmd)
(Note: There is a TAB (not space), before that last $(elabcmd).)
Anyway, while I am happy to help a little, this is a generic Make question,
not specific to Cygwin ...
EM
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* Re: Cygwin bash script removing equal sign
2019-04-25 16:11 Cygwin bash script removing equal sign Peter Palaparthy
2019-04-25 19:12 ` Eliot Moss
@ 2019-04-25 19:26 ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker
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From: Hans-Bernhard Bröker @ 2019-04-25 19:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
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Am 25.04.2019 um 18:11 schrieb Peter Palaparthy:
> Cygwin bash script is removing equals sign from command call.
On what basis did you conclude it was bash doing that, and not, say, make?
> *Here is the relevant command in my makefile.*
> *$(elabcmd) = $(XELAB_DEFAULT) \-generic VERSION=10*
I believe for that to be a syntactically valid line in a Makefile would
take some more Makefile code on top of it. If you don't show the actual
file you use (or a suitably trimmed, yet self-contained abstract of it),
you're making it impossibly hard for people to help you.
> *compile:$(elabcmd)*
Same problem here.
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