From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Chad Bryant" <chadb@merlinsys.com>
To: <sourcenav@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: sourcenav munges my preferences!
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:42:00 -0000
Message-id: <001501c0b3b8$25590800$eac8a8c0@chadblaptop>
References: <20010323103431.D10980@harmony.cs.rit.edu>
X-SW-Source: 2001-q1/msg00251.html

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thanks,
chadb

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "D-Man" <dsh8290@rit.edu>
To: <sourcenav@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 7:34 AM
Subject: sourcenav munges my preferences!


> 
> In the preferences dialog I want the build command to be:
> 
> sourcenav-ant.bat VSS/LegacyIntegrator buildFull
> 
> but snav insists on changing it to 
> 
> sourcenav-ant.bat VSS\LegacyIntegrator buildFull
> 
> 
> I took a look at the source, in multimake.tcl line 215 is :
> 
> @@set $this-makecommand [file nativename $sn_options(both,make-command)]
> 
> 
> Apparently SNav is trying to be smart by converting paths to the
> native format.  The problem is I don't want that.  It won't work with
> a '\'.  (The build command invokes bash, which runs a shell script
> that runs ant (a make replacement for java) and the shell script needs
> the / because the \L turns into L and the resulting path DNE).  
> 
> I changed the line to :
> 
> @@set $this-makecommand $sn_options(both,make-command)
> 
> and the build window now appears correctly.  However, if I open the
> preferences dialog again, it has munged the command.
> 
> 
> What can I hack to remove this "feature" and get the string exactly as
> I entered?
> 
> Thanks,
> -D
> 
>